Barnettem,

Concerning your first post about sportfishers whinning over $10M not being enough for fish restoration projects:

There have been many credible studies that combine to prove the positive economic benefit of northwest sport fishers is worth many $billion per year! Yes, billions. Not only that, we pay far more per capita and as an entity to produce hatchery runs of fish than any other group of people. We pay the same taxes and electric rates as non fishing citizens to toward habitat and fish restoration, but we pay many times more than that thru many millions on state fishing license fees, extra taxes on fishing tackle and related gear, in addition to spending so much to stimulate the northwest economy! Yes, we have some underutilized clout there. That does not mean we can't vent when we are 'thrown a bone' of insufficient funding for salmon restoration projects and very unfair fish quota allocations.

Get my drift?