Ryan Lothrop is the new coordinator for the Puget Sound Recreational Fisheries Enhancement Fund. He took over from Steve Theisfeld who has moved to the Region 6 Fish Manager position.

His primary presentation information is going to be about the PSRFE program and how your license dollars (remember the old $10 salmon stamp fee?) are being used to enhance Chinook stocking programs in Puget Sound but also some coho plants and some ling cod research that was done in the South Sound.

He won't be talking much about the NOF process, but will be able to answer some questions. The pre-season forecast numbers for the 2014 salmon returns isn't available yet. Those numbers will be coming out at the first NOF meeting which will be in Olympia on March 3 at the DNR building.