Bruce,

If people cared, and Bear Creek is still suitable sockeye habitat, then perhaps a hatchery of some sort, proportionate to the size of the creek, might be a good fishery management idea. This would be contingent on a couple important things. First would be a suitable water supply. Second is that my limited understanding is that the urbanites there don't like the smell of stinky dead salmon carcasses. So a run in decline may be best suited to contemporary social preferences. Interesting way to manage an ecosystem, eh?

Sincerely,

Salmo g.