Indians destroyed the salmon runs?
Without a doubt. One question, why did the Boldt decision end the case? He was just one judge, yet no one took it any further and into a higher court.
Voltaire wrote: “To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”
I was in my early 20’s when Boldt first made his ruling and the focus of my attentions was only peripherally on fishing rights. But we lived at the time on a huge lake and fishing had always been a part of growing up. All of a sudden the rules changed - drastically. The indians got to net fish the shyt out of every fishing hole and whitey got to sit on shore and watch. After, if anything was left, whitey got their chance, punishing rules applied. We used to sit on shore and watch them rake in every ever-living thing - legal or otherwise - until there wasn’t a damned thing left. They would string their nets and interfere with every other water-borne activity and had several official forces standing at the ready to intervene (on their behalf) if anyone complained.
IMO the indians wrangled the Most Favored Victim status of the day - not unlike today’s BLM. Not earned but rather leveraged and orchestrated. They misbehaved and broke things and got violent and then whined about racism when caught. No one challenged the ruling because no one had the balls to stand up to the virtue-signalers, even then.