Thought I would jump into the Sockeye discussion with a new post. My personal grievance has to do with the 350,000 fish (or no season) escapement rule. I am an engineer and I have looked at the last 30 years of fish counts in every way conceivable and can see no no benefit to having the number be this high. All this number does is ensure that we will have a season only on average once every 6 years or so. That really irritates me. The WDFW treats this number as heavenly inspired when in fact it was just pulled out of the air 30 years ago and has never been challenged or justified or debated or anything.