Remember that the primary source of funds for WDFW is from license sales, taxes on sport hunting and fishing equipment, and mitigation. I don't think they are as broke as they claim but priorities are skewed so that the license holders pay for the commercials and so on.

Their whole funding structure needs retooling. Perhaps an Initiative that would mandate that all funds collected from the hunters/fishers (license, DJ/PR) can be used to directly benefit them. This would include some level of habitat protection needed to produce animals, but the cost of producing fish for commercial harvest (I and NI), ESA responsibilities, etc. would come from GF as those actions have statewide benefits and statewide causes.