Lots of things to think about.

In my other life, half the fines went to the agency and half to the general fund. If a SO, PD, or other state officer (Parks, etc) wrote a fish and wildlife ticket, half went to the general fund and half to the agency that wrote the ticket.

An interesting concept to add the cost of a license to a no license charge and have that money go to the agency.

I'd like to see an easier ticket process and some clarification on fine amounts. I'd also like to see a much cleaner license suspension process. Bad guys often don't care about the fines (you might be surprised at the amount of cash on hand in the field that lets folks pay penalty assessments) but they do care about the possibility of losing license privileges. A change in the RCW could free up court time and officer time if there were processes in place for mail in tickets. A lot of fish and wildlife crimes can be handled outside the court system, but that requires a mindset change by the state.

PSRFE program money gets a 15.91% cut off the top for "overhead" costs. That currently takes $347,333 dollars out of the PSRFE programs that could be better used within the program. That is, according to contacts, a minimal amount of skim. Many other WDFW programs get hit at rates above 25% and some state programs are paying upwards of 60% and more out of their programs.

I agree that wildlife funds should not be cut as that is our money. The WDFW gets over 40% of its income from state general funds. A lot of that is based on the old split between Fisheries and Game. Fisheries was general fund based and the public subsidized a lot of its work. Commercial license fees wouldn't and still don't cover their costs to the state. Game received some general funds (I don't know how much) but most of its income was from license sales.