WB should be the poster child for how to properly manage WA anadromous salmonids, hatchery and wild. No ESA listings. Yet. No Co-Managers so outside approval not needed. There should be no reason why WB can't be a showcase, or even a study area, for how to recover depressed stocks, recover habitat, run hatcheries, have wild stocks, have fisheries.

It seems as if WDFW does not want to rock the boat for the rest of the state's management.