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 ...

He might not have known it at the time, but Dave Genz was making ice fishing history in 1980 when he built the first flip-top portable ice fishing shelter in the garage of his Twin Cities-area home.

CATHLAMET, Wahkiakum County — More than eight decades after their demise, fish traps are getting a fresh look from researchers convinced they offer a more sustainable way to catch Columbia River ...

Scientists exploring an underwater region off the coast of Alaska discovered an ancient stone fish trap that may be the oldest ever found. University academics working with the Sealaska Heritage ...

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, ...

San Jose residents are being asked to keep an eye out for people setting illegal fish traps in local waterways after city workers and South Bay Clean Creeks Coalition volunteers recently broke up ...

New fish trap that allows unwanted fish to escape wins conservation award. Photo by: Tim McClanahan/WCS. An innovative fish trap that allows small non-target fish to escape has won a new content by ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

A red snapper sits in a basket after it was caught on a tagging trip. Red snappers were the target fish in some of the fisheries accidentally catching sharks. A red snapper sits in a basket after it ...

He might not have known it at the time, but Dave Genz was making ice fishing history in 1980, when he built the first flip-top portable ice fishing shelter in the garage of his Twin Cities-area home.