Our problem is our own government! Us! Years ago, when we knew about losing salmon habitat (dams, roads, etc.) we were promised to always have salmon by building hatcheries. Now to save salmon (so called wild ones) we can't harvest the fish that we have been promised. But trying to protect and isolate the wild ones, we quit letting hatchery strain fish (which are likely the same genetics as almost every other salmon in Puget Sound) we have further ruined the habitat for natural spawners by limiting nutrification. Furthermore, if I decided to kill an unmarked king salmon I stand the chance of being arrested, perhaps jailed, and maybe even the loss of my fishing privileges and seizure of my boat. Meanwhile, an Alaska troller from our own state can kill our protected salmon in Alaska, sell it, and ship it back to our state for someone to buy for dinner!

( Hard to keep the orcas fed without increasing hatchery production) Impossible to increase wild fish with extremely limited habitat. It aint gonna work. We have been failing miserably for forty years, even though we have the answers.