The harvest problem in MA13 was that one tribe exceeded its agreed upon share by 3x and then 2x and then simply decided it was easier to not enter into any agreement. That is what led the State to the early openers and extended days/week; an attempt to allow recreational crabbers an opportunity before the crab were all gone. Well, the outcome of that pathetic situation is virtually no Dungies left in MA 13.

As for the podcast (Ron Garner) I suspect that the $100K is coming out of the Endorsement money. Three comments on that: (1) WDFW did a study in past years whereby they contacted folks who did not return their CRC data and were able to determine an adjustment factor and also that most who did not return the cards had not crabbed or did so only once and (2) I find it disingenuous that we would be spending more money on enforcement - after all, that is what it is - over and above WDFW's emphasis patrols and (3) recreational crabbers deserve an active, regularly meeting advisory group with oversight on endorsement money expenditures (as is done with PSRFE and CR endorsement monies) and to have agendas and minutes posted to the WDFW advisory group website (which has NEVER occurred): http://wdfw.wa.gov/about/advisory/.