Just a week after the WDFW Director moves on, and the Commissioners reject a proposed NOF rule change based on the guidance of a WA State AAG, a Tribal entity unilaterally declares a "season" on another threatened fishery...certainly a coincidence, don't you think? Those who are unfamiliar with precedence and history are certainly doomed to repeat it.

Take this to the Commission and go over their desk tops with it. Ask all the questions you're rightfully entitled answers to. Be sure to inquire how they could depend on a legal strategy supposedly built around resource protection that has been a miserable failure for more than a decade. Remind them that their overall mission is to preserve and protect a Recreational fishermens' opportunity as well as conserving our fish.

Wrap things up with a resolving demand that they collectively seek a different direction in regard to their legal counsel...one that the stakeholders can embrace and support...