Mixed stock fishing is the death blow to weaker stocks. AK is now throwing bycatch into the mix.

If we want to restore our salmon stocks we need to stop killing them in the ocean either in directed or bycatch fisheries. We have to restore (ie stop killing) the food supply from plankton on up. We have to balance predator levels. Since society really isn't willing to do any of the above, the stocks can just wink out.