My favorite is a South PS hatchery that had a guaranteed water supply that was perfect. Then the supplier backed out so the hatcheries chief said dump and move on.

Well here comes the head of engineering and he came up with a surface water thing and got the Director to sign off. Bloody thing has been a piece of crap from day one but the people responsible for that bit of stupidity are gone. The hatchery is still there though and gets pointed to as a waste so the hatcheries get a black eye along with the staff.

You have got to know the history of any hatchery to know why things are what they are. By the way your correct, legislators have screwed up more culture things, other side is agencies have used closures to get votes for funding. Rep. Blake gets to experience this every funding cycle on the Willapa.

No fast & easy answers.