Second on what Smalma posted above yesterday. WDFW under Susewind is getting out of the recreational fishing business. It's obvious that steelhead fisheries have been a PITA for WDFW for some time, but to close a hatchery that produces resident trout for stocking lakes - the only money maker in the state hatchery line up - is solid evidence that Susewind plans to take the agency in the direction of a "petting zoo" kind of fish experience for NT citizens and hand over actual "fishing" that the Washington Department of Salmon actually cares about to the treaty tribes and base future funding of the Department mainly on General Fund appropriations.

Smalma's right; the future WDFW is an agency most of us will not recognize.