Director Anderson obliquely addressed Hair's concern at the last Commission meeting when he alluded to the Department having some projections of license fee increases (adversely) affecting license sales. None of the Commissioners questioned him on that nor did he elaborate further. This may come up at the Senate hearing on the WDFW budget.

Survey results from 2010 revealed that a large percentage of folks having purchased a P.S. crab endorsement (at $3.00) did not participate. Will those same folks pitch in $7.50 in 2011 "just in case" they have a chance to crab? My guess is there will be some price resistance although the new P.S. crab management policy with its expanded seasons might counter the price increase.

The good thing about adjusting multiple variables at the same time is it creates a lot of opportunity after the fact for finger pointing (oops, I meant polite discussions).

Never ending drama.