Too many guides is bad for........the bad guides.

My thought is that you control overall harvest by seasons, daily limits and possibly seasonal limits. Again, guides provide a service and everyone aboard is constrained by recreational fishing regulations.

But if you can control the number of guides why not just decide that there are too many fishermen and limit the number of licenses? Or maybe those whose Wild number ends in an even number get to fish on even numbered days (Julian calendar rules) and odd numbered Wild get the other days.

Topwater, I hear your pain and can only offer that increased usage (demand) is one way of improving service. Or, conversely, not having the revenue will ensure further degradation of facilities which immediately impacts access. As I suggested earlier there is a ton of WA money that is being dropped in OR and there is no doubt in my mind some of that could be spent in WA if WA licensed guides could fish the LCR and maybe several of the other estuaries without the requisite limited entry charter license.