In 1870, Edmund Smith invented a machine to process this resource, which he gave a racist nickname referencing the immigrant workers it was intended to replace. This non-wood resource was a driver of early American settlement of the Lost Coast. In 1864, Hapgood, Hume, and Company founded an early processing facility for this resource on a barge in the Sacramento River. William Ruckelshaus mediated a 1990s “war” over this resource that included a blockade of Friday Harbor. “Fighting Dan” Sutherland accused a company that processed this resource of being the “great monopolists of (*) Bristol Bay.” During the [emphasize] summer, this was the primary resource processed by Filipino Alaskeros. For 10 points, dams along the rivers of the US West Coast have hindered the spawning of what kind of fish? ■END■
ANSWER: salmon [accept species of Pacific salmon such as, but not limited to, coho, sockeye, Chinook, pink, or chum salmon; prompt on fish until mention]
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