Originally Posted By: skyrise
another Huge waste of taxpayer dollars. pair up a department biologist with some volunteers with boats - Done !
Heck I would bet there are a few guides that would join in if the cause was to help gather information.
And you just saved a bunch of money. Genius. But of course that would mean the department would actually be working With the citizens who pay for their salary instead of fighting against them.
Not in this Tyrannical overlord state government we have now.


I'd rather they "waste" tax dollars on this kind of effort than raising hatchery salmon for Canada or AK. You might bet on the utility of using guides and volunteers to collect data, but previous experience has demonstrated time and again that volunteers simply don't collect the kind of stratified random sampling that is necessary to obtain statistically useful results. And working with antagonists who think the Department is responsible for things outside the Department's control is never easy or satisfying.