Thank you to all who've taken the time to write and call your Representatives and Governor Inslee's office. Your letters and calls are being read and heard. The sudden and unexpected announcement of the "Ten Year Plan" was a stab in the back for the non-tribal community and highlights just how destructive secret negotiations are. Imagine what other deals might be in the process of being agreed to RIGHT NOW that we (and the Commission) might not even be aware of? Crabbing, Halibut, Shellfish, Complete River takeovers, Ramps closed or uncompleted, the potential list goes on and on. How does the saying go? "Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me." We cannot let the Department continue to "Fool" us into thinking they have our best interests at heart. They have proven they don't. It's time to again contact your Commission and let them know "We Must End These Secret Meetings" Tell them it's time to back up what they have said with real, meaningful action. Ask them to write open meetings into their policy! The Commission needs to put action to words. They have repeatedly stated they are in full support of transparency and were even recently burned by the lack of it. It is now time for them to DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. Our fish are disappearing and without open and honest management, we cannot do anything about it. How can we be asked to trust and to work together in cooperation on conservation efforts when we are continually EXCLUDED from the table? Why are we asked to shoulder the lion’s share of money to a department which treats us like second class citizens? And why does one party in the Co-management process get preferential treatment at the duress of the other? Is this fair and equitable Co-management? Write your Commission today: 
Commission@DFW.WA.Gov