Long-Banned Fish Traps Return to the Columbia
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This fall marks the first time in 75-plus years that a pound net fishery is operating on the Lower Columbia River.
Pound nets and other "fish traps" were banned from commercial fishing on the Oregon side of the Columbia River in 1948 and in Washington waters in 1934.
The Washington-based nonprofit Wild Fish Conservancy (WFC) has spent the past decade working with a group of commercial fishers, processors and state and federal government officials to develop and test modified pound net fish traps that...
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