What needs to be changed is the requirement for the State to provide a "viable commercial fishery". I wonder what the population of Washington was when this requirement was penned?

Western Washington now has a dense population with a lot of sportsmen. This is NOT SE Alaska!

Spawnout, nobody said that the State was unaware of the $$ sportfishing creates. What was said was that the State feels that they are required by law to disregard that data when making decisions regarding sportfishing.