Built a bamboo fish trap in the forest and caught a large fish that was eaten. The trap is hopper-shaped and placed upside down so fish cannot swim back due to water resistance. Rocks were stacked to ...

On the eve of the rise of the Maya civilization, people living in what’s now Belize turned a whole wetland into a giant network of fish traps big enough to feed thousands of people. We already know ...

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 ...