Dr. Koenings is the Washington representative on the commission and as far as I can tell he may be the only US representative with a fisheries science background. That is a positive maybe. Shortly after he came to WDFW he gave a talk at UW and at the reception after the talk I had the opportunity to ask him a question. My question was what would he do to limit Alaska's catch of Washington chinook. His answer was that during his time in Alaska he saw no evidence that there was any catch of Washington chinook in Alaska fisheries. One can hope that he has learned otherwise since then.