What once was is likely to never be again.

Environmental circumstances and WDFW's own addiction to "doing it this way cuz that's how we've always done it" have rendered WDFW irrelevant in anadromous fish management. The treaty tribes don't need WDFW. Anglers no longer really need WDFW since it is the tribes and not WDFW that delivers us non-treaty salmon and steelhead fishing seasons. The rest of the state's citizens and the Legislature will soon figure out that it's a waste of tax dollars to fund the WDFW anadromous fish program.