I received some interesting crab pot retrieval data from WDFW yesterday which may go to why they may have been slow in getting to your area. Yearly final reports for the period 2012 through 2016 had numbers of recovered pots ranging from 405 in 2013 over 28 days of sweeps to 1,099 in 2015 over 25 sweep days. Preliminary 2017 data for north Puget Sound only (King County north) is 1,500 for 16 days of sweeps. They have been busy!!

That effort in the field, however, does not explain why you did not receive any acknowledgement/feedback to your several reports. That is not a new complaint. I am following up on that and hopefully will have more to report.