Originally Posted By: paker
[quote=Carcassman]

Why does the WDFW not heavily recruit the world-class talent that comes out of the #1 fisheries school in the nation? Why do most of those talented graduates tend to work for NOAA or other agencies? You'd think WDFW would be camped out at the doors...especially around this time of year when a lot of world class talent is graduating.


As was mentioned before....the WDFW can have the best modeler, quantitative guru, genomics expert in the world, but if their bosses don't/won't listen to them due to their own career gains and/or political agenda, that talent goes to waste, or put to use on other projects.

Add in a lot of politics and bureaucracy and I'd say that's your answer.


As to hiring it's certainly a budget/FTE issue. One young UW fisheries graduate I know worked years for WDFW as a test fisher (temp slot) before finally landing a full time job with WDFW.

The Federal agencies have bigger budgets and more employees meaning more openings each year than WDFW plus a much wider and career challenging set of issues for an up an comer.

And then there are the politics, bureaucracy and the related inertia that is difficult to overcome.
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