News and Program Updates

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.
July, 2006 - Trip report Wild Salmon Center's President & CEO visits Kamchatka program site.
July - August, 2006Kamchatka Scientist Disseminates Results
March - April, 2006Oil and Gas exploration in Kamchatka
November, 2004Report on the Kamchatka Steelhead Project
July - August, 2004Wild Salmon Center Leads Effort to Save One of Pacific's Most Productive Salmon Rivers
Augsut, 2003Wild Salmon Center and United Nations to Conserve Four Vital Kamchatka Rivers
December, 2002Kamchataka Fishing Expedition Photo Gallery - 2
December, 2002Kamchataka Fishing Expedition Photo Gallery - 1