WFC has learned how to go after the low hanging (as laying on the ground) fruit. They win because the agencies they sue aren't doing their jobs. Otherwise, they wouldn't win.

As Rivrguy says, the marine mixed stock fisheries should have died long ago. Makes no ecological sense, little or no management sense, but is a great moneymaker.

As noted above, the ultimate solution to the low numbers of salmon and whales is to permanently fix the habitat. But, the wild Columbia salmon will never be restored until the dams come out. Period. But, even if we could magically remove them all tomorrow it would be a decade or more before production got up high enough to feed the whales. The ONLY short term solution is to stop killing the fish they eat (and the resources that feed those fish) until they passed by the whales and are no longer available to them. Otherwise, extinction.