So grandpa, all that new punch card money now goes directly into the "wildlife funds", right? So does that mean that WDFW can go out and buy another 10 new trucks that run $30,000 each, or does that mean that our fishing money can pay out ten's of thousands more of our wildlife dollars to "help" paid for some poor rancher in eastern Washington that owns 3000 acres to help keep out all of those elk herds from eating his hay?

The way I read that bill, it does nothing to enhance, or help the recover of our fisheries. Well maybe they can use it to give groups like WT another $58,000! Didn't that money come from our wildlife funds also? After all, wasn't the suit filled directly against all the persons who were in charge of our wildlife i.e. "JEFFREY P. KOENINGS; WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE; WASHINGTON FISH AND WILDLIFE COMMISSION; RUSS CAHILL; WILL ROEHL, RON OZMENT, LISA PELLY, DAWN REYNOLDS, FRED SHIOSAKI, BOB TUCK, R.P. VAN GYTENBEEK, and KELLY WHITE"?

Am I reading this bill wrong or am I missing something here?

That money is being collected as a direct TAX on fishing for additional salmon and that money should have been mandated to improve salmon fishing and not to feed the endless WDFW "Black Hole".

Cowlitzfisherman