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 ...

Archaeologists found wooden stakes in a Norway lake that turned out to be 650-year-old fishing trap abandoned after the Black Death, photos show. Photo from Ellen K. Friis and Cultural History Museum ...

In this video, I construct a bamboo fish trap in the forest. The trap is designed like a hopper and positioned upside down to prevent fish from escaping due to water resistance. Stacked rocks are used ...