While the potential game fish season issues were raised at both public NOF meetings held in Region 4 to be fair the NOF process really has no pathway to address those game fish seasons.

NOF was established as a salmon season setting process and in fact until very recently folks were told that game fish seasons were addressed in different process; a more public process with final decisions made by WDFW commission. Now that seems to have changed and to date the public that might potentially be affected have had no public mechanism in which to inject their concerns or preferences.

Curt