One good turn deserves another.
White hunters in the mid 1800’s decimated the buffalo population on the plains which impacted plains Indians who were married to the animal. Until the plains Indians had horses and were able to hunt the buffalo they were generally farmers, but horses and tribal wars for territory changed things around. I think the horse came in around mid seventeen hundreds for the plains Indians.
In Oregon it appears to be the other way around. Difficult to understand why the Indians there would willingly kill off what sustained them. They are supposed to be the original environmental activists. It sounds like the State of Oregon was a big loser as well. Sport fishing and associated tourism income for the State was killed off as well as the salmon, by folks who should know better.
Would love to hear more on the subject. How do you restore historic salmon runs that you have killed off? When you catch all the salmon with a memory where they came from up river. What then?
I think you just stop all fishing inside the 12 mile limit around the country for a set number of years. Enforce no fishing zones around the US as far out as you can for trawlers. Mankind is simply raping the ocean to feed the Asians. It doesn’t matter what race of the people owning the ships and fisheries, it just matters that they control it.