Ocean fisheries are impossible to manage.
The nets indiscriminately kill wild salmon from rivers that have endangered populations, as well as salmon from rivers that have healthier populations. The only way to protect the species is to end all ocean netting for Atlantic salmon. The Status of Wild Atlantic Salmon - A River by River Assessment, reports that, in the 2,005 rivers studied, wild Atlantic salmon have already disappeared in Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia, and that the species is on the brink of extinction in Estonia, Portugal, Poland, the United States, and parts of Canada. Today wild Atlantic salmon are at their lowest levels in known history. They have been completely eliminated from much of their original range, and many remaining populations are hanging by a thread.