To quote my friend eyeFISH, GDITMMM!

So WDFW adopts a WB policy deciding to increase hatchery Chinook production - along with natural Chinook production (never mind if that doesn't make sense) - at the less efficient and effective Naselle hatchery while decreasing hatchery Chinook production by 90% at the more efficient and cost effective Forks Creek hatchery. And all the while Director Susewind claims the Department is in a budget crisis! Sheesh! As I have suspected for a while now, WDFW has a priorities crisis, not so much a budget crisis. We need to make sure our Legislators are aware of this crap as the Department presents its $26 million supplemental budget request to the 2020 Legislative session. (It already went to the Governor's office last month.)

WDFW wants more of our money so it can continue the status quo of pissing it away on misfeasance or is it malfeasance status quo spending on programs that deliver less to WA sportfishers and taxpayers who fund the whole shebang. (Sorry for the slight thread drift, but) I've been pissed at Susewind since late May when he wrote that he will have to terminate the recently re-opened Skagit steelhead season because of a lack of funding for monitoring that is required by NMFS. The Department stopped stocking hatchery steelhead six years ago; where is all that money? Then a week later Susewind announced he was creating two new top tier management positions in the Department that would more than cover the cost of Skagit monitoring. And here the Department has enough money to operate hatchery programs that deliver fewer salmon overall, and fewer salmon to sport fishers who fund the GD Departement, but he can't monitor a Skagit steelhead season? And to think I heard that management skill is the asset Susewind brings to the agency as Director. Forgive me for not seeing that.