I'm still trying to figure out how come the state can't hire personal to monitor the different fisheries. Especially since most of the money for these monitoring programs comes from the federal goverment and not the state. In last Thursdays Columbian newspaper there was an article that said they may have to shorten some seasons because of this. I may be wrong, but isn't there a tax on sport fishing gear that goes to the feds, who then return the money to the states for projects like monitoring fisheries? Seems to me the state is holding money hostage that isn't even state money.