My feeling:

WDFW is very strong in promotion of "commercial fishing". In Region 6 there is no time, during the year, to talk about steelhead. Now salmon get talked about LOTS. The whole NOF process is spent talking about salmon....conservation, x amount for sports and x days for the NT gill netters.

Wynoochee Mitigation...1992, still NO salmon or steelhead have been raised from the mitigation funds.....QIN and WDFW, just can't get on the same page to start spending the $2.4 million, that is in a fund. Commission wants this done but still it get pushed to the back burner, and that burner is off...grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr