Without some emergency action, there's only so much further the numbers can decline before we're talking about mass extinction. We're getting very close.
I've witnessed in my own nearby watersheds in Clayoquot Sound that some of them are not seeing any salmon returning at all. That is indicative of many of the small streams throughout the province. Certainly, some of the larger watersheds are also getting very close to that red line.
Without emergency measures, funding and action, as I said in my opening statement, we could see the extinction of salmon on a large scale in my lifetime.