Research Paper on:
Pacific Northwest Salmon Industry

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views this from the comfort of their easy chair and the courtesy of National Geographic, or whether one is viewing it first hand, it is nonetheless an amazing feat of  willpower. However, it would seem that this willpower, alone, will not be enough to save the Salmon from the steady decline in their numbers in the Pacific Northwest.  Salmon is an important economic resource as well as food resource. However, the salmon industry began to take too many fish, the salmon  population has decreased. Also it is sensitive to human activities as environmental indicator, so the volume has decreased along with the water pollution and unthinkable exploitation. Now, as well as  many other projects for saving salmon and its environment, farming salmon is one of the biggest industries worldwide. Many have stated that the Salmon problem is due to the over  fishing by commercial fishermen and the lack of conservation efforts and dollars to continue to insure the production of Salmon in the area. Others have mentioned that it is not  the fishermen who have caused the problem, but that the problem is environmental and that with global warming, pollution from the cities and run-off from industries and farms, that the  Salmon industry hasnt much chance of making a recovery on its own. Another impact that the declining numbers of Salmon has been on the Native American culture, who have looked  to the Salmon as both a form of sustenance and a form of sacred religious belief. Seven years ago a fishery resource disaster occurred in the salmon fishery in  the Pacific Northwest. Historic lows in the abundance of the two types of salmon, the Chinook and the coho, led to many closures of canneries and fisheries in most of