Your comment is spacious at best. Halibut are given up to the commercials and tribes and the recreational fisheries gets the bloody seconds and thirds. If it were about the "fish" then the powers that be would stop, or at least drastically curtail the commercial fishery. If it were about the "fish" they would stop the wide spread illegal fishing and destruction that happens right under their noses by a certain fishing group who has F&L so intimidated that they will not enforce the law on this certain group. According to WDFWDA.GOV RECREATIONAL (SPORT) FISHING is $4.5 billion annually for Washington state's economy. Commercial fisheries, meanwhile, generate an average of $1.6 billion. So please know what you are talking about when you post baseless comments!