A new experiment is testing the commercial success of fish traps in Washington and Oregon. Even as some conservationists embrace the technique, its return has reopened old wounds among local fishers ...

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, ...

In this video, I demonstrate how to build a fish trap from bamboo in the forest. The trap features a hopper design placed upside down to prevent fish from escaping due to water resistance. I use ...

Two homemade fish traps went head to head in the same water. Same bait, same conditions, very different results. This test shows which DIY design actually catches fish and which one completely fails.

Archaeologists excavated 7,000-year-old wooden fish traps at Tesse lake for the first time after a hiker stumbled on the ruins, photos show. Photo from the Cultural History Museum Standing on the bank ...

The fish traps at Lake Tesse, with sections of the Stone Age settlement area visible in the background. Credit: Axel Mjærum et al. 2026 The discovery, published in the journal Antiquity, has allowed ...

Standing on a ferry chugging across Sydney Harbour, it’s still possible to imagine the city as it was in 1788 – before the span of the bridge, before the marinas and yachts, before buildings were ...