Since the single largest budget line item is salmon hatcheries, maybe I'll make my pitch again that the Department conduct a hatchery by hatchery audit that compares each hatchery's cost relative to its contribution to catches by WA recreational salmon anglers. Most of the $87 million or so spent on hatcheries each budget cycle raises hatchery salmon to be caught in BC, AK, and WA commercial and treaty fisheries. Seems like a budget crisis would be a good time to choose to spend money on the hatcheries that return the biggest bang for buck to the constituents who pay the taxes and buy the licenses that keep the doors open and the lights on in the concrete palace known as the NRB.