The world is a huge balance of give and take. When one side abuses it's "taking" privileges the balance is thrown off. For many years the salmon runs were big and plentiful many people benefited from the abundance of salmon and the salmon's lives were indeed better. The nations growth in population and need of resources actually took things away from the salmon such as habitats and their lives. It is now clear that dams and logging were both major contributors in the decline of the salmon population, and programs like hatcheries that were supposed to be build the population of salmon actually hurt them.
Salmon decline is overlooked everyday but is in fact very real. Over the years the population of salmon has drastically decreased and really doesn't show much sign of improving.
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