"Hatchery Operations"

[sprestwood]

Was just looking at 2008 regulations/guide and noticed total funds associated with the hatchery system in Tennessee has become a rather large portion of expenditures (pages 6, 7). Hatchery costs were divided up among “Hatchery Operations” (26%), “Hatchery Improvements” (14%), “Fish Acquisition” (2%), and a little is stuffed in is “Land Acquisition” (5%) budget which was split with land used for water access. There was no division of any other whole category. There was a “Streams” and a “Reservoir” budget but no Streams Improvement budget.

The question I float to you is do you think there is some embarrassment that TWRA has bloated the budget for the hatchery system? The total would be 42% plus some change from the Land Acquisition budget. Having a total hatchery budget category would make the most sense to me, which leads me to think there was some numbers management done to soften the blow of reality.

What do you think?

 

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sprestwood - 2/21/2008 7:05 PM

Was just looking at 2008 regulations/guide and noticed total funds associated with the hatchery system in Tennessee has become a rather large portion of expenditures.....

What do you think?

Compare the 2008 hatchery system budget to annual 2007-1988 hatchery system budget. I doubt that you see any large changes. My point being is that the hatchery budget has always been a large % of the total budget.