The director of WDFW is hired and serves at the behest of the WDFW commission which is made up of members who serve multi-year terms. The commissioners are appinted by the governor and are supposed to represent a diverse cross section of user groups. At the moment we have a commission that is slanted towards commercial interests very blatantly. It should come as no surprise, then, that we have a director who is also biased in favor of commercial fishing.

So all you liberal democrats take a real hard look at your governor and some of the legislators who are no friend of sports fishing. It is all about politics boys and girls. It isn't about finding the right person who is going to save our fish...We had one of those and he got tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail.