Bob's book on the Skeena Steelhead, about a decade ago, noted that the fastest growing population in the watershed was FN peoples. Even if all they do is subsistence fishing and even if they eat every fish they catch, at some point there are more mouths to feed than the river can produce fish. Couple the growing FN population with downstream commercial fishing that didn't give a rip about anything but short-term profits and you blow the stocks away.

The Canadians are just catching up on Pacific Salmon following our lead on salmon and theirs on cod.