No, that's not what I am saying!

But if NMFS says that a specie has now becomes endanger, and puts it on their list, that could then mean that you don't get to fish for it, and that you don't have the same type of "opportunity", and you won't be able to get your money back from WDFW even those "you" are being denied your "opportunity to fish" for that specie.

By the way that this RCW is worded, it sounds to me like "…If, for [any reason], the department does not allow [any opportunity] for a commercial fishery during a calendar year…" that the same rule should also apply to sport fishing. If the law applies to the commercials why should it not apply to sport fishers?

Does that make anymore sense to you?

Cowlitzfisherman