It is time to tax the commercial fisheries harvest. It costs the State in many ways and does not pay its way. But Walker's love affair with commercial fisheries has resulted in favoring that industry with an almost laughable tax rate of 1 percent. Fish are a common resource belonging to all citizens but harvested by the few permit holders who have not been paying for the management of the fisheries from which they take the fish. Walker and ADFG commissioner are quick to like a fee to catch sockeye by sports both resident and non residents or the dip net fisheries. But he fails to recognize or just forgets  that both pay license fees the total of which that pay for the sport fisheries management and research.