About half the salmon swimming up the Columbia River come from hatcheries, and most of them are raised to be caught by fishermen. The rest are wild, and many of them are protected under the Endangered ...

Standing on the bank of a serene lake in Norway, a hiker breathed in the crisp mountain air. As he scanned the shoreline, something caught his attention. He noticed a series of wooden poles plunged ...

The Wild Fish Conservancy in partnership with other conservation groups has spent two seasons employing test fish traps on the Columbia River near Cathlamet. The once-outlawed commercial fishing ...

Back in the 1950s, Alaska's bid for statehood was spurred in part by a fight over fish traps. The behemoth contraptions were placed at the mouths of salmon streams from Ketchikan to Dillingham, ...

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 ...