When Martin Perales and Paul Blank go fishing on the Napa River, the fish barely stand a chance. The two men don't use a fishing rod. They use a rotary screw trap — a rotating funnel, 8 feet across, ...

Nearly a century ago, fish traps were banned on the Columbia River. The practice had been used by Indigenous communities of the Northwest for a millennia, but when European settlers expanded west, ...

Jonathan Koehler is working the biggest fish-trapping contraption on the Napa River and finding out good news about Chinook salmon after a historic rain year. This eight-foot-diameter metal funnel ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fish traps that have survived tens of thousands of years show the resourcefulness of Brunswick’s indigenous population, according ...

PRESQUE ISLE, Maine -- January 31, 2023 -- When ice depths reach the three foot depth, it’s often a two man job to sink dozens of fishing holes for setting out tip-ups, new battery ice augers are fast ...

Researchers at Nagaland University in Lumami, India, recently collaborated with local bamboo weavers to design a low-cost fishing trap composed of plastic and bamboo threads, both of which are easily ...