I recently found out the Master Hunter Program is also on the chopping block. Not only do Master Hunters have to pay additional certification & license fees, they also have to perform a certain amount of annual hours providing education, habit restoration & wildlife rehab / monitoring to KEEP their certification. Plus they provide a community service by to helping reduce wildlife conflicts. These are ethical people that want to give back and pay for the right to do so....but nope, not good enough.

So it's not just fish. The WDFW is failing at everything. The budgeted monies they get today would be more than enough if it wasn't for the corruption, bureaucracy and bloat. If they were a private enterprise, they would have gone out of business long ago. Mismanagement 101.