Fish wheels, like the one in this 1903 photo along the Washougal River, floated on deeper rivers with salmon runs from 1866 until they were banned in 1934. Today, they are used to catch salmon for ...

Todd Krieg, who was born and raised in North Pole, won first place in the University of Fairbanks Alaska’s Arctic Innovation Competition last year, for designing a product that he referred to as a ...

For about the past 10,000 years, Indian tribe members have taken big nets to the Columbia River where the water runs fast and used the nets to scoop out salmon. When the industrialized Europeans came ...