Anyone who has voted for a Tim Eyeman initiative is partly to blame here. When we cut a huge hole in the state budget like with the tabs initiative, it doesn't take much forsight to see that items with small lobby power will be the first to be removed. I agree there is goverment waste, but if you handcuff our representitives, I guarantee sportfishing, state parks, habitat preservation, game law enforcement, hatchery management,and wild fish survival will rank very low in importance for the average voter. Hell, our state spends half as much as Mississippi on road improvements, yet we have twice the population. If we can't even agree to fix the traffic mess in puget sound, how do can we expect them to keep their hands off our sport. I don't think it is responsible to make cuts before you know how it will effect the entire budget. Nevertheless Eyeman has passed many initiatives by effectively buying votes. If you knew your hatchery was going to be closed would you have voted the same... I doubt it. Remember there is no free lunch.