Eyelashes will win out. In some ways, the whole deck is stacked against the whales and salmon.

Alaska responds to nobody but themselves. Too much Congressional power to budge them.
Canada will hammer the lower 48 because they have no way to hit AK.
Tribes have Treaty rights to dead fish in the boat. And besides, fishing is not the problem.
WA is either broke or owes so much for (Education, mental health, homeless, transportation, culverts) that they will do nothing new.
Too expensive to clean up wastewater.