The "We have given enough, it's your turn" idea is why we won't fix the problem. There is no one single solution. If doing one thing worked, like reducing seasons, it would have.

When we hear "close fisheries" the first target here is tribal netting. Net fishing of salmon, by tribes and non-Indians, does little or no immediate damage to the SRKWs as the fisheries are generally behind the whales. The net fisheries can and do damage the future supply of fish, but that is more a decision of the managers than the fishermen.

The fisheries ahead of the whales are the problem. The food never gets to them. But even if we don't have the fisheries the fish need food, and that is now a North Pacific problem of global proportions as it is affecting southern hemisphere birds.

Ten or twenty years ago we had, maybe, the time to look only at the long term solutions (habitat) and so on. That boat has sailed. It all gets back to the whales need food today.

I will see if I can find my old PS salmon data bases (70s-90s) and just see what the total adult return to PS was (fish for nets and escapement as that was all WDF counted) when the SRKWs were more abundant. I bet it was a lot higher than now.