if you think corporate performance evaluations would provide accountability... you've obviously never worked in a corporate setting or you were simply delusional about the purpose of them when you were working. many people perform well and are evaluated poorly in these settings and many people perform poorly and are evaluated well (weird how this seems to happen mostly in middle and upper management). the idea that crowdsourcing performance evaluations would somehow provide greater accountability to public officials is laughable. politicians already deal with this and its called elections. are you proposing that every WDFW staff member submit to public performance evaluations and then be terminated if they did not meet x-critera? I've seen creel checkers yelled at by similar minded people to you DrifterWA... on what planet does a young college grad counting fish dictate high level policy at the STATEWIDE level?

Transparency is what is needed and that is driven by public interest and the political will of the interested public (accountability). The mechanisms exist to enact change but the reality is that sportfishing is a privileged activity and is on the decline in the PNW. Sportfisherman may have to take a hit in order to join a powerful enough coalition to enact the change that is better for all interested parties. Moving the commission meetings to the weekend is a great idea for us folks who work during the week and is a pathway to achieving greater transparency and putting more public pressure on public officials. Let us not hold one type of institution up as if it represents some sort of gold standard when many of the issues you are worried about are problems in all institutions regardless of type. I