More On Why Early Winter Steelhead Releases Are Ending At Tokul Creek

The amount of hatchery steelhead genes in wild Snoqualmie winter-runs greatly exceeded allowable limits during a four-year monitoring period, and while the sample size was also relatively small, it led directly to this week’s news that the Tokul Creek program would be shut down.
They Found Your Lucky Flasher(s): Divers Clean Columbia, Dozens Of 360 Setups At A Time

Divers are cleaning the Lower Columbia and its tributaries of lost fishing gear, dozens of 360 setups at a time. Who are they, why are they doing it and what the heck do they do with all the still-usable gear?!?