Salmo

You hit the nail on the head very well. While is see it as the fault of WDFW and NOAA because they were required to do something, the people who held the purse strings are real bad guys. Yet, they are allowed to fly away without blame. And they get re-elected.

But, at least for WDFW, they received more and more of their funds from the license buyers and that is where they should have been focusing the money.