Seems as though a few years back we decided to "tax" ourselves and get a crab count so that we could get a more equitable crab allocation. I have yet to see these numbers and WDFW has buried the information that came from years past,(remember Koenings and the acting director were there and let this continue).One reason we need fresh blood in that Directors position and we need to force the issue about the crab count, or give us back our money.
This should become an issue very soon.....
Fishy
It is my "Belief" that the arrogant WDFW spent those CRC Dollars for a lot of things besides what the Legislation limited them to. And that Legal Limitation was very specific, i.e., establish a "Counting System (with some degree of integrity)", Count The Sports Caught Crab, and Use the Numbers for allocation purposes. That is the "Why" of a Performance Audit that is NOW THREE YEARS OVERDUE!!!!!! All you have to do is query the Legislature's own database on "Who" Contributed to "Whom" and you automatically understand why

Sonntag is sitting on the Performance Audit cause it looks very bad for the democrats in the legislature who took the MOST dollars from the Commercial Crabbing Interests. And that "MOST" was not just a "Little MOST" but a Lot of "MOST"!!!! Just look at the contributors (Who & How Much) to our Favorite Crook Jacobsen (and Hargrove).
(added on edit) The average "CRC Take" by WDFW is around $750,000 per year and they have NOT be able to account for one #%^& penny of it.