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 ...

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 ...

Fish traps have been in use ever since there has been water and mud. Original inhabitants of Alaska who lived along the river systems figured out quite quickly how to trap fish. The first traps were ...