Action Alert! Hatchery production to be cut-end of legislati

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Folks, Deals are happening fast at the end of the legislative session which is days away. There is a real threat to gut our hatcheries.

Please take action now on this very important matter. Please click on this link now!!!!!
https://www.votervoice.net/PSA/campaigns/41601/respond

We are at the end of the 2015 legislative session. We have severe danger to our fisheries that are now on the table that arose Tuesday. The House Appropriations Committee approved a 2015-2017 operating budget that proposes to cut our funding for hatchery salmon production. The Committee also accepted an amendment from Representative Kristine Lytton (D-Anacortes) that wouldundermine the Willapa Bay salmon fishery reform policyrecently adopted by the Fish and Wildlife Commission. Please take just one minute click on the link above to send your state representatives telling them to reverse these bad policies. If you don't act now, our fisheries are going to be on an unrecoverable death spiral. THIS IS THAT IMPORTANT!

The House budget proposal would cut funding for the marking of hatchery salmon by over $400,000. Since state law requires that all hatchery salmon be marked, this will result in a direct cut to hatchery salmon production, including Chinook and Coho. Every previous version of the House and Senate budgets have included this funding, so there's a chance we can save this funding if we act now!