It would be very Congress-like to pass a law prohibiting closing hatcheries while failing to fund the hatchery programs.

WDFW isn't the problem on this one, it's the two or three federal agencies that run the Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery. I again wonder aloud why the affected tribe(s) haven't used their power to get this fixed. I guarantee we will hear outrage from the Yakamas just as we did from PS tribes, yet the Yakamas dipnet/snag 20 feet from the illegal structure... it's not like they didn't know this would happen.

Fish on...

Todd