He might not have known it at the time, but Dave Genz was making ice fishing history in 1980, when he built the first flip-top portable ice fishing shelter in the garage of his Twin Cities-area home.

Coral reefs and artificial reefs from the Florida Keys to the Panhandle to the waters off the First Coast in Northeast Florida have one thing in common — lionfish. The pervasive invasive species, ...

Fish traps that have survived tens of thousands of years show the resourcefulness of Brunswick’s indigenous population, according to author, biologist and Brunswick resident Don Peterson. “I’m amazed ...

On the eve of the rise of the Maya civilization, people living in what’s now Belize turned a whole wetland into a giant network of fish traps big enough to feed thousands of people. We already know ...

Standing on the bank of a serene lake in Norway, a hiker breathed in the crisp mountain air. As he scanned the shoreline, something caught his attention. He noticed a series of wooden poles plunged ...

Archaeologists found wooden stakes in a Norway lake that turned out to be 650-year-old fishing trap abandoned after the Black Death, photos show. Photo from Ellen K. Friis and Cultural History Museum ...

Starting around 4,000 years ago, an elaborate fish-trapping system nourished expanding human populations in lowland Central America, a new study finds. The discovery of this massive construction ...