Commission?

I believe appeals on sport suspensions are handled by WDFW w/o any comparable sport hunter/fisher suspension committee made up of a voting majority of hunters/fishers (although I suspect such a committee would be less forgiving than the commercial committee).

It has been discussed previously that sport fishers receiving a citation often simply pay because it is difficult to take time from work and travel to the particular court. The problem with that is the automatic suspension process - three strikes and suspended no matter how inadvertent and/or trivial the violation over a ten year period. Furthermore, it involves all citations resulting from alleged violation of F&W regs. Keep in mind that the commercial totals have to be from activities in the same fishery.

As pulled from Bushbear's post:

" (d) If a person violates, three times or more in a ten-year period, recreational hunting or fishing laws or rules for which the person: (i) Is convicted of an offense; (ii) has an unvacated payment of a fine or a finding of committed as a final disposition for any infraction; or (iii) fails to appear at a hearing to contest an infraction or a criminal citation. Revocation and suspension under this subsection must be ordered of all recreational hunting and fishing privileges for two years.