Politically, I am not sure that the salmon predators (pinnipeds, birds) will be meaningfully controlled in the short-term.

I may have brought this up before, but if the Snake dams come out the justification for the Snake Mitigation Hatcheries disappear. So, fewer smolts and more predators so even if they get out of the Snake.........

One of the unintended consequences of reducing hatchery releases (for whatever reason-budget, genetics, religion) is that predation on the remaining ning wilds goes up.

I am not really convinced that society wants to save the SRKW's or salmon.