Uh...there's a reason it's called a "Fisheries Degree" and not an "Ecological Sciences Degree", or a "Conservation Biologist Degree"..."fisheries" is about fishing, plain and simple.

WDFW has plenty of ecologists and biologists on staff, too, though not surprisingly their policy ideas don't fit very well with the Department policies, nor would they fit well with most hunters' and fishers' ideas of sound wildlife management.

When I worked at the State, it was a not-so-funny joke that we referred to the WDFW as the "Department of Hunting and Fishing"...

Fish on...

Todd