I never noticed much difference between R's and D's over the years with fisheries at the federal level. State maybe but it was only at staffing. Remember it was a D that got us Anderson.

On another note Mike Scharpf has taken the position in Puget Sound that Chad Herring had. This oportunity came about because Chad took the Region 6 Fish Program Manager position.

For the record Mike will be missed. You can disagree with him without it getting out of hand. Not that common anymore.

Chad has been here before 10 years or so ago working with RW and knows the ground so he will not have that much of a learning curve.

Good luck to both.