Priority ONE is to secure the backing of the leadership at WDFW and the Fish/Wildlife Commission.

Moreover, the Commission should be tasked with creating its own blueprint to bring these fish back home with incremental goals for reduced northern intercept exploitation and its expectations for proportionately greater terminal run-sizes over a specified time period. Without knowing where we want to be, how can we ever craft a strategy to get there?

As it stands now, there is no formal mechanism or process to convey the wishes of Washington State's fish managers to the US delegation at PSC. Our PSC folks simply "wing it" on our behalf, and that we should be content with the agreements they negotiate for us without really representing any actual "wish list" from WDFW/WFWC..... it simply doesn't exist.

Next step would be to broaden and strengthen the "Bring Them Home" coalition to include the DFW's and Commissions of Oregon and Idaho.

This is do-able folks. It's just no one's had the cojones to take this big ol' bull by the horns.... UNTIL NOW.