Gotta' love armchair fisheries management, recognizing that not all who post here are of the Monday morning quarterbacking armchair persuasion.

WDFW has the jurisdiction and authority to manage recreational and non-treaty commercial fishing in terms of time, area, gear, limits and quotas. The Department has very little authority with respect to habitat management and protection. And the Department has almost zero authority to regulate treaty tribal fishing. So I hafta' ask, what should WDFW be doing that it isn't, and what is it doing that it should stop doing, or change? And how would those actions change the number of fish in WA waters? Inquisitive minds want to know.