I talked directly with the Fish Program, and what I was told was that they fully intend to have the fishery, that the wording of the request to the legislature was designed to stress the importance of approval of the $120K to their ability to manage the fishery, were aghast that their request was interpreted as holding the fishery hostage and that this was never intended, and that they are indeed working on sampling schemes to allow full sport allocation within the sampling budget. They also said that the preliminary adult sockeye return estimate was at this point 450K, but that if it was more they would still be able to sample properly to allow full utilization. Sounded pretty sincere and reasonable to me. Maybe we over-reacted a little here - like that could ever happen - and if so I will be the first to apologize