Frankly the smartest/common sense thing to do is manage for maximum production,,, its best for the environment,, the food chain and best for humanity...

The fastest way to get maximum sustained production is to stop commercial fishing and max out hatchery smolt and fry production... Get as many fish upriver as possible regardless if they are hatchery or wild.. The rivers have to be absolutely saturated with fish which will rebuild the food chain...

Stop all harvest on the feeding grounds and migratory routes,, put all the opportunity and effort in the terminal areas as far as harvest goes...

Stop harvest on the feeding grounds and watch how fast you start seeing older age adults,,, you wont believe how much more abundance there is just from stopping harvest on the feeding grounds and migratory routes...

A prime example is the larger runs we had this year,,, its directly related to COVID and interruption of the efforts regarding harvest on the feeding grounds and migratory routes... There was in interruption in the supply chain that impacted fishing efforts and resulted in more fish to the terminal areas...

There is absolutely no reason for commercial fishing.. most of the fish get turned into animal feed anyways... Humanity has reached a technological point that the equipment needed to harvest salmon can be obtained by anyone who wants to eat fish,, boats/gear and know how...

Commercial fishing is absolutely reckless and abusive to the environment a direct threat to humanities safety,, security and health... Frankly we just have no excuse to continue doing it,, there is no upside to the human collective as only a few benefit... Its a huge waste of earths natural food production and one sided towards special interests...

As far as the tribes go,, they know better,,, they know how we got into this mess yet choose to continue the same game at everyone else's expense,, especially the environment... The best thing for the environment is as many salmon as possible spawning and then dying on the riverbank,, everybody gets to eat,, the bugs,, the birds,, the whales ,, the bears, humans and the plants and trees which ends up making more fish by default... More Salmon until the river cant hold/accept anymore and they push each other out onto the river bank which is how the natives once harvested by picking up the fish that get pushed out because there is not enough water/river for all the fish...