Originally Posted By: stam
Originally Posted By: jgreen
Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I think its done this way to write tickets. They could simply just say, with no legalese, "two adult coho, one of which can be wild". They chose not to.


Best explanation I've seen yet.

Writing easy tickets to those that will actually pay them will help to finance spending hours and hours on a real poacher who will end up paying nothing.

Look at it as a voluntary subsidy of sorts.



Not sure that I subscribe to that theory but I do agree that the biggest bang for the buck is chasing the serious offenders.

But back to this poorly written "guidance" in the regulations pamphlet and your concern. If a WDFW LEO were to write a citation to someone who had taken the most liberal interpretation and that LEO gets +one point for writing the citation they should get -20 points for every one they have written that is tossed by a judge. Not being mean spirited but just pointing out a concern that the system may not have a method for identifying any LEO who may systematically abusing his ticket book.
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