When Martin Perales and Paul Blank go fishing on the Napa River, the fish barely stand a chance. The two men don't use a fishing rod. They use a rotary screw trap — a rotating funnel, 8 feet across, ...

The Napa County Resource Conservation District is operating a rotary screw trap to monitor and log fish species that navigate the Napa River. The hope is for a revitalized waterway for steelhead and ...

The recent article regarding fish traps contains a number of errors, both of fact and omission. (Long-banned fish traps return to the Columbia, Nov. 18, 2025, by Columbia Insight.) The biologist ...

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Fish traps that have survived tens of thousands of years show the resourcefulness of Brunswick’s indigenous population, according to author, biologist and Brunswick resident Don Peterson. “I’m amazed ...

KEMAMAN: Another critically endangered river terrapin (Batagur affinis) has been found dead, trapped by fishing gear in the Kemaman River here. A local fisherman reported the death to the Turtle ...