Barb sent this update on the Willapa review out so I thought I would post it up. Several folks have asked me on just what they are supposed to comment on and I have no idea. The process has been a Adviser meetings with time to comment at the end for public comment but NOT participate. No solid proposals or options fully developed but rather fact checking and personal views.


To the question of whether or not the agency or Commission will take public input on anything within the Willapa Policy before any action is or is not taken, no idea at this point.


As to the question is this just a dog and pony show. Yes and no. Yes it has in the sense that it has been structured around the Advisers processes which by design limit active public participation. No in that a real effort has been made to insure the information is correct and not biased with a decent effort to provide access to the information via the WDF&W website. I say that with this one critical exception, at no time during the development or in this review has WDF&W told the Willapa community just what this policy does to their communities. Rec, commercial, inriver, are all going to be severely impacted and depending on location have a strong possibility of being eliminated.


From my perspective I suggest folks start asking the hard questions about the future of the Willapa fisheries while you still have time to do so whatever your views are.







Hi All, just wanted to forward this out to everyone so you have a chance to review and comment on the attached document if you would like.

As a reminder, we have two meetings scheduled on January 9th and 23rd. Here is a link to the advisory group page on our website https://wdfw.wa.gov/about/advisory/wbsag/.

Thank you.
Barbara