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I built a fish trap with natural materials

Watch a desert willow stem and yucca cordage basket fish trap in action underwater. This video showcases the functionality and effectiveness of traditional fishing techniques using natural materials ...
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How banned fish traps could help salmon in the Pacific Northwest

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, ...
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Fish Traps Have Been Banned on the Columbia River for Nearly a Century. Could Bringing Them Back Help Save Salmon?

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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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. ...