It was informative but pretty one-sided with Blake crafting the questions to obtain information he wanted.

WDFW's Steve Theisfeld was asked about recreational regs and Theisfeld confirmed that the Department has very liberal regs for the recreational fishers. This in the context of commercials taking most of the fish. What wasn't discussed was the timing of the commercial fleet's fisheries and their impact on recreational success. Theisfeld missed that opportunity.

Blake also asked Theisfeld to provide information on the number of recreational fishers and Theisfeld promised to provide data on the number of recreational fisher trips. I hope he goes back far enough to show how active that fishery was and addresses how great it can become - and not simply provide one data point.

Those observations aside he (Theisfeld) did a great job against a stacked deck.