CARMEL VALLEY — Every spring Cory Hamilton and his team wade into the Carmel River armed with nets. Up to their ankles in water, they scan the surface for steelhead trout. Some of those fish are ...

The team nets them and then trucks the rescued fish to a rearing facility or to a safer section of the river. “It feels good,” says Hamilton, who has been rescuing steelhead in the Carmel ...

“It feels good,” says Hamilton, who has been rescuing steelhead in the Carmel River for 22 years, “to help save something.” Since 1989, nearly 500,000 fish have been rescued, many of them having been ...