forthcoming changes outline the group of students at the university of british columbia editing this wikipedia entry have tentatively decided on the following as an outline for the entry history the purpose of this introductory section is to give the readers an insight and understanding of the background history of hells gate and its indigenous inhabitants the first nations people used hells gate as a prime salmon fishing ground and because of this it became one of many locations for a popular fish station i also discuss the environmental reasoning deglaciation behind the presence of salmon and subsequently indigenous people in the fraser canyon and hells gate area hells gate slide this section will focus on the hells gate slide itself beginning with the construction of the canadian northern railway which spurred the slide it will discuss how human impact and the slide changed the water ecology and what measures were initially taken in order to solve the issue environmental impacts the main focus of this section would be damage to the local environment due to the slide it would address the impact the hells gate slide had on the fish habitat particularly focusing on the sockeye salmon runs disruption it would then explore the decline in the salmon population due to the incident and would focus on the relocation of the salmon which was unable to reach the spawning grounds into other rivers social and political impacts in this section we will look at the social impacts on the native fisheries and on the commercial fisheries that happened as a result of the hells gate slide the international pacific salmon fisheries commission ipsfc here i'll discuss how the commission came to be what it was comprised of who was in it how it functioned etc also their research although this may go in the next section this section may be relatively small as there is already an existing entry on the commission international dispute discuss the disputed research methods and conclusions and the escalating conflict government response this section will deal with the response to the slide building of fishways etc today the current situation of hells gate and the fraser river aerial tramway existing