If WDFW Region 6 won't respond to phone calls or emails, a few people who can document this need to attend a Commission meeting and complain. If the Commission tells Director Susewind to tell R6 to respond, they will.

Whenever there is a problem with WDFW, the root of power is the Commission. Now the Commission doesn't alway side with a constituent, so there is that. Like just before Covid, I asked the Commission to have the Department conduct an audit of the cost of returning a hatchery Chinook and coho to the recreational creel for each state hatchery that produces those species. That didn't go anywhere. Neither the Commission nor the Department want to know that number when it's common knowledge that most hatchery Chinook and coho are harvested in Canada, the WA NT troll and net, and treaty fisheries.