Lets face it, we have as little control of our salmon as we do over OPEC setting oil prices that we run our economy by. Once our salmon leave for the sea they are open game for the rest of the fish eating nations of the north pacific, some of them trolling 30 mile nets, they don't care about our economy, our fish, how big they are, or what river they need to get back to. We need our salmon like we need $100 a barrel oil, take the fish out of our economy and we will  suffer. We can't control oil prices, or output. We can't seem to get a dam gas line, in state or out. Well we better protect our salmon and other fisheries. We are not the only ones who need the fish. The bears, eagles, and other animals right down the chain depend on  salmon, weather alive or dead. The west coast and the east coat of our country once had large healthy salmon runs. Their mostly gone. We may have to look back to the Menahuni of the Hawaiian islands amazing ocean farming methods. just for sale, of course.