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Fish traps have been banned on the Columbia River for nearly a century. Could bringing them back help save salmon?
In the late summer of 1805, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s Corps of Discovery expedition came upon a camp of Shoshone Indians, who gifted the haggard explorers a meal that raised their spirits. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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