A coalition of Oregon environmental groups have appealed the Eugene Water and Electric Board's plan to trap and haul fish at its Carmen-Smith hydropower facilities in hopes federal regulators will ...

What started as a simple survival style idea quickly turned into a full scale project with branches, vines, and a lot of guessing. The trap looked impressive, but whether it would actually function ...

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, ...

The first round of subawards totaling more than $1.4M supports 11 projects focused on removing derelict fishing gear from coastal waters in nine U.S. states and Palau “This is a special program ...

Lost fishing gear can continue trapping animals long after it disappears beneath the water. A nationwide US cleanup programme has now removed more than 14,000 derelict fishing traps weighing almost ...