The SRKWs need to eat. The fisheries that are the problem are the ones that are in front of them, especially those that take immatures. By the time the runs get to WA as adults lots have been taken. Closing just/only the WA fisheries will likely not put very many more fish in whale tummies. Killing pinnipeds that eat adult salmonids, like those killed in the Willamette, will not help the SRKWs as the food has already passed them by.

As Rivrguy noted, the place to start is BC and AK, plus all the fisheries on immature Chinook here.

But you are right, Larry, that if we are going to save the SRKWs that immediate and very unpopular action will need to be taken. Pinnipeds killed, fisheries closed, more intensive bay and river fisheries if you believe the current goals, more hatchery production where we can keep the adults off the grounds. All of that. And none of it will be done because it is just to politically painful to implement. So, we'll restrict whale watching and makes boats go slower so they can starve to death in peace.