I never thought that WDFW was playing games necessarily but I think Koenings is savvy to the game of budgets in Olympia. If the Sokeye fishery is a bargaining chip in the big game to get money for WDFW then fine...Just don't play the game too long and get alot of the constituents mad. The legislators for the most part are really undereducated about fisheries issues and probably know alot more about all the lawsuit settlements sucking the budgets dry.

By the way I think a figure of 450,000 is very conservative for a run size estimate.