WDFW has the option and flexibility to move money around many of its programs and functions. It is the deliberate choice of Susewind to close a steelhead hatchery and not fund monitoring of the Skagit steelhead fishery. Instead, WDFW is letting us know that they consider it more important to produce hatchery salmon to be caught in Canada (and Alaska to some extent) and in commercial fisheries (treaty and non-treaty) in Washington State.

At this point, WDFW is no longer much use to me. Defund WDFW.