Because the Pacific salmon from Canada and the United States intermingle extensively during their migrations along the coasts of both countries a conflict began over who owned the fish. The salmon number had began to drop because there were no territorial boundaries which stressed many Canadian and American fishermen alike. So in 1985 the Pacific Salmon Treaty was created. It limited the number of fisheries, the number of fish licenses and the types of fish you could catch. This aimed to end overfishing but by 1997 it showed that quotas were unchanged so in 1999 an agreement was signed that put 140 million dollars towards protecting and rebuilding salmon spawning grounds.