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Biostation on Kol river in Kamchatka

Biostation on Kol river in Kamchatka

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Wild Salmon Center in the News

  • 2006
    • October 15, 2006 As featured in the New York Times, the government of Kamchatka announced they are working to designate seven tracts of wilderness as salmon-protected areas. Encompassing nine entire rivers and more than six million acres, the protected watersheds would be dedicated to producing wild salmon — for food, profit, recreation and scientific study, and as a genetic reserve of one of the world's most commercially and culturally important fish.
  • 2004
    • September 14, 2004 International Salmon Festival in Sakhalin, hosted by Wild Salmon Center, Ecotrust, and the Sakhalin Wild Nature Fund. (Sakhalin Independent)
    • September 9, 2004 Salmon-protection plan upheld: Ballot measure could undo effect of forest board's decision, Salem Statesman Journal, with comment from Cascadia Salmon Biodiversity Program director David Moskowitz.
    • August 16, 2004 Giant Logjams Built to Protect Highway (Seattle Times), with comment from Wild Salmon Center salmon ecologist John McMillan.
    • July 19, 2004 Fish Tales Lure Russians, Vancouver Columbian article
    • July 6, 2004 Russian visitors to get fisheries lesson: They will learn how to promote sport fishing, tourism, Salem Statesman Journal.
    • April-June, 2004 Casting Wide: SABIT Grant Helps Intern from Magadan Explore the Fly-Fishing Industry, SABIT Exchange, Department of Commerce.
    • May 18, 2004 Russian Refuge to Help NW Salmon, Daily Journal of Commerce, Seattle. (Please contact the Wild Salmon Center for copies.)
    • May 14, 2004 Bush's Fishy Policy, Missoula News, Missoula, Montana.
    • May 11, 2004 Wild Salmon Come Calling, Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati.
    • April 22, 2004 View scenes from the documentary, Kamchatka Salmon-Killing the Miracle, featuring Wild Salmon Center scientists and partners, from Discovery Channel - Canada.
    • February 13, 2004 The Wild Salmon Center's Olympic Peninsula science and conservation goals have been described in an extensive article in The Osprey, a newsletter published by the Steelhead Committee of the Federation of Fly Fishers. (Please contact the Wild Salmon Center for copies.)
    • February 2, 2004 Wild Salmon Center Vice President of Science and Conservation, Dr. Xanthippe Augerot, was a panelist on "Collapsing Oceans and the Rising Tide of International Cooperation," on January 28, 2004 on KQED-FM, San Francisco.

      Guests on the panel included:

      The radio panel was connected with the event, "Collapsing Oceans and the Rising Tide of International Cooperation," which was held January 29th, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

      • Read the article on "A Commotion to Save the Ocean" in Wired magazine.
      • Listen to the broadcast on KQED-FM - search for Ocean Conservation, Wednesday, January 28, 2004.
  • 2003
    • December 9, 2003 The Wild Salmon Center will participate in a statewide panel to review Oregon Department of Forestry measures to protect salmon habitat on some forest lands, Hillsboro Argus.
    • November 6, 2003 Initiative would put half of Tillamook off-limits to logging, KATU-TV, Portland.
    • November/December 2003 North Pacific: Sizing up the state of the salmon, Orion Magazine. (Please contact the Wild Salmon Center for copies.)
    • October 23, 2003 Seminar introduces new fishing techniques, Sakhalin Independent.
    • September 29, 2003 Salmon protection plan approved in Kamchatka, Sakhalin Independent.
    • Autumn 2003 Conservation: Salmonid Sanctuary on Washington's Hoh River, NW Fly Fishing. (Please contact the Wild Salmon Center for copies.)
    • August 29, 2003 U.N. Joins Russia's Fight to Save Western Pacific Salmon, Science. (Please contact the Wild Salmon Center for copies.)
    • August 27, 2003 Conservation groups pledge money for Russian rivers, KATU-Portland.
    • August 27, 2003Program promises Kamchatka salmon refuges, Oregonian.
    • August 13, 2003 Oregon coho recovery: perspectives on policy and political implications, Oregonian.
    • August 6, 2003 Coalition seeks to protect Bering Sea: International group wants U.S., Russia to co-manage area, Anchorage Daily News.
    • June 16, 2003 The Wild Salmon Center presented its findings at the World Summit on Salmon, held in Vancouver June 10-13, 2003, Anchorage Daily News and Tidepool.org article.
    • January 20, 2003 National Public Radio's Morning Edition broadcast two eight-minute features on the Wild Salmon Center's science and conservation programs on the Kamchatka Peninsula. Listen to the broadcasts:
  • 2001
  • 2000