Another example of dogma over data

Way back, in the 80s, WDF ran a spring Chinook program on the Dungeness, primarily from gaffed fish. Fish were reared to yearlings because that was "what you did with spring Chinook". One of the tribal bios pointed out that the scales they were reading, of springers, showed no yearlings, only fingerling smolts. WDF still held to the yearling release dogma because "that's how it works on the Columbia".