Originally Posted By: gvbest
Not sure a conversation with someone else without any supporting documents, numbers would be considered facts. I could make up anything and then state someone of importance told me but it don't make it credible.


Sorry, I can't say that 416 or 393 HPAs or whatever specific number of HPAs for exceptions to the dredging windows in the Gold and Fish pamphlet have been issued, but the number is in the hundreds, according to the information provided by the WDFW to Representative Tarleton. Why would I "make up anything" to support my position? A simple check with the WDFW would expose me! Did you think of that? (You might make a number up but I wouldn't and haven't.) Go talk to the WDFW yourself and see what it has to say about the number of HPAs issued and how well those projects have been monitored. Suction dredging just isn't a priority for the department. Since the WDFW doesn't have the money to do anything other than do a cursory check of a proposed dredging project to say nothing of actually monitoring how it is being carried out, I can't fault the department.