Sakhalin Salmon Initiative
International Conference

Conference Information

First Plenary Session, October 31

• Ivan Malakhov (opening address)
  Governor of Sakhalin
• Guido Rahr
  President and CEO, Wild Salmon Center
• Ian Craig
  Executive Director, Sakhalin Energy Investment Company
• Joel Holtrop
  Deputy Chief of the National Forest System, USDA Forest Service
• Elena Armand
  Environment Department Chair, United Nations Development Program Russia
• Evgeny Svyazhin
  Program Manager, UNDP Kamchatka Salmonid Project
• Sergei Sinyakov
  Chief Research Associate, Kamchatka Fisheries and Research Institute
• Vladimir Belyaev
  Director, Interagency Ichthyology Commission
• Vladimir Yefanov
  Professor, Sakhalin State University
• Vladimir Gorshechnikov
  Director, Sakhalin Commercial Fisheries Association
• Rob Walton
  Regional Administrator for Salmon Recovery, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Second Plenary Session, November 1

• Amanda Bigelow
  Executive Manager, International River Foundation
• Ekaterina Koroleva
  Indigenous Representative, Sakhalin Oblast Duma
• Igor Bystrov
  Director of the Regional Center for Coastal Fisheries and Stock Assessment
• David Martin
  Director of Russia Far East Program, Wild Salmon Center
• Victor Nagorni
  Vice-Governor of Sakhalin

Conference Organizing Committee

The Wild Salmon Center would like to thank the International Salmon Initiative Conference Organizing Committee for their efforts:

• Igor Bystrov
  Director of the Regional Center for Coastal Fisheries and Stock Assessment
• Tatiana Beloglazova
  Acting Director, Foundation for Russian-American Economic Cooperation (FRAEC) Sakhalin Office
• Victor Fokanov
  Secretary of the Fisheries Industry Club
• Sergei Karepkin
  Deputy to the Sakhalin Oblast Duma
• Natalya Ivanova
  Director of Sakhalin Oblast Department for Tourism Development
• Alexei Limanzo
  Chairman of the Board of Indigenous, Minority Peoples of Northern Sakhalin
• Dmitri Lisitsyn
  Director of Sakhalin Environment Watch
• Sergei Makeev
  Director of the Sakhalin Wild Nature Fund
• David Martin
  Director of Russia Far East Program, Wild Salmon Center
• Vyacheslav Melkii
  Professor of Geology and Director of Geology Laboratory, Sakhalin State University
• Nicole Portley
  Russia Far East Program Assistant, Wild Salmon Center, SSI Conference Director
• Vladimir Radchenko
  Director of Sakhalin Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (SakhNIRO)
• Vladimir Smirnov
  General Director of Pilar Fisheries Company
• Vladimir Tabunkov
  Deputy Director of Sakhalin's Fishery Industrial Association
• Natalya Tarabarova
  Director of the Sakhalin Oblast Natural Resources Department
• Oleg Ugai
  Deputy to the Sakhalin Oblast Duma
• Valeriy Zakrizhevskiy
  Head of Sakhalin Federal Fisheries Agency (Sakhrybvod)