What I don't understand is why they won't let us fund the facility with a license plate, tackle tax, or terminal fishery stamp. Car washes, whatever.

I've given up on expecting the state agencies to make the fishing and hunting better in Washington. Right now I'm just hoping for damage control. We have all the same resources B.C and Oregon does except our fishing and hunting sucks compared to theirs. Every new regulation they impose makes less and less sense. Why close the Bubble Fishery last year and reopen it this year in light of the ESA; you know how many Snohomish system summer Kings are caught on that bar? The only place in N Puget Sound you can keep a king? - don't even bother taking your bumpers off when you leave the dock.

Fishery declines have been known about since the early 1900's and they have NOTHING about it. ODFW reports that harvest of Columbia Coho went from 8 million pounds in 1930 to 1/2 million fish in 1960. How many now I wonder?

There has got to be a way to come up with a measly $100,000 to feed and house summer smolts. Come on.

TK