For those who may not know Fishinnut he is the President of the PSA State Board and also president of the Sno-King Chapter hence in a position to respond.

My personal opinion of Mr. Cedargreen's article is that it attempts to justify
the status quo. In the article he mentions WDFW supporting both Tribal and state fisheries with the State's fisheries being both commercial and recreational. Okay, agree with that. But when he wrote that the resource is a public resource and that the State's commercial fishery provides fish to the State's non-fishing citizens he pointedly fails to recognize that the Tribal fishery is virtually all commercial. He also failed to engage on the reality that the general funds going to WDFW (you know, the dollars from those non-fishing citizens which used to help support WDFW's hatchery operations) have been cut dramatically over the last several bienniums.


Edit: Salmo snuck in while I was (slowly) thinking also hitting on the concept that the Tribal fishery needs to be recognized. Begs the question of whether the legislative mandate that WDFW manage for commercial harvest in addition to recreational use is met by the tribal fishery.

In short, pablum for the masses and a failure to recognize that what used to be in terms of who is paying for what has changed. Time to look at that old paradigm.

One other observation. His article seems to suggest that commercial fisheries be stopped. I don't read it that way; it addresses prioritization tied to proportion of funding.