LUMMI ISLAND, Whatcom County — If you’d sailed into the San Juan archipelago over 200 years ago, you might have seen Lummi fishermen in two dugout canoes anchored parallel to each other, a net in the ...
The production of this article and accompanying photographs are the result of a collaboration between environment and science news platform, Mongabay, and McClatchy News. “Some mornings, the sun’s ...
Reef net fishing is an ancient, sustainable salmon-harvesting technique created and perfected by the Lummi and other Coast Salish Indigenous people over a millennium. Rather than chasing the fish, ...
A heavy metal net is dragged across the seafloor at breakneck speed, churning up dark clouds of sediment and swallowing everything in its path. A blue-spotted stingray tries to flee, flailing its ...
A work crew has drawn attention for using an excavator, rather than nets or fishing rods, to catch fish in a river, combining ...
RAPID RIVER, Idaho – Virgil Holt Jr. reaches into the rushing water of Rapid River with a gaff pole and gently taps it along the rocky bottom as he draws it through a hole. The traditional fishing ...
Park rangers who patrol Illescas National Reserve often confront fishers who use chinchorros, a type of fishing net that is banned in Peru. The reserve is designated solely as a terrestrial protected ...