The Fish Trap Journal

It is truly amazing what we have accomplished to date; our crew has successfully built Washington State’s first commercial salmon trap in over 80 years.

It is no easy task tagging and clipping hundreds of fish 14 hours a day, day on end. But on tides when the fish are

With each haul of salmon and steelhead, Wild Fish Conservancy’s experienced field staff gathers genetic samples and implants Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) tags. These important elements

Waking up before the sunrise, the crew paddled out to the trap for the first day of test fishing! With the spiller deployed and the

Today the crew lifted a winch — the trap’s final component —  to the top of the pilings, marking the trap’s completion. This 400-pound piece

Climbing to the very top of the pilings, the crew hung the final compartment of the trap, known as the “spiller.” This key piece of