I think it is very rare that anyone at WDFW would lie...but I will say that many a harvest or hatchery manager thinks that *their* program is the one that is different than all the rest...even though it's operated like all the rest, which have failed.

Look at all the closures of our terminal areas to the HARVEST OF HATCHERY FISH...!

Closing a river to hatchery fish retention, during the hatchery fish season? Why? Because the hatcheries are run so poorly that they can't even return enough fish to keep the hatchery going, so the only reason that those fish exist...which is harvest opportunity...gets curtailed.

Those hatchery programs are run for one reason...to keep the hatchery program going.

What an incredible waste of money and energy.

Fish on...

Todd