WDFW rushes headlong into becoming irrelevant as far as recreational fishing for anadromous fish goes.

If WDFW had any spine, which it clearly has lacked for the past 5 years minimum, it would simply close George Adams hatchery. The Department has made a list of hatcheries it will close in response to the Governor's directive to slash agency budgets in response to declining state revenue because of the pandemic. George Adams is not on the list of proposed closures. Why the hell not? The Department is planning to shut down the main trout hatcheries in Puget Sound that provide the majority of trout stocked in the PS region, where the majority of state taxpayers and fishing license buyers reside. Yet the Department plans to continue to operate salmon hatcheries that provide salmon mainly to Canada, Alaska, and WA treaty fisheries, with only a few salmon returning to the creels of WA taxpaying fishing license buyers. On economics alone, WDFW's actions and planned actions are shear idiocy. Idiocracy has arrived in WA State.