Rivrguy,

Although I don't always include it, I mean to exclude mitigation hatchery fish from any recommendation to reduce hatchery production. I'm referring in all such cases to hatchery production funded by state tax and license fee dollars. Mitigation for dams or other stipulations should continue to be funded as they are presently.

The WDFW bias for marine harvest is functionally obsolete, along with using taxpayer funded hatcheries to subsidize welfare commercial fishing. WDFW is overdue to a new business plan, and not the one that Susewind seems inclined toward - eliminating anadromous fisheries and for WDFW to exclusively be a habitat manager of a petting zoo.