The wild salmon rivers of the Russian Far East: science, conservation and fly fishing
The vast wilderness rivers of the Kamchatka Peninsula and the wider Russian Far East produce half of the world's salmon. These prodigious runs support some of the largest densities of brown bears in the world, the spectacular Steller's eagle and many other species. The rivers themselves are remote and difficult to navigate, but hold secrets to the bioproductivity of wild salmon rivers everywhere. Over the last two decades, an intrepid group of Russian and American fly fisherman and field scientists have been exploring these watersheds to unlock their mysteries, finding new races of salmon, char and a giant trout, the Siberian taimen, that's rumored to grow large enough to feed on the adult salmon.
At the same time, the logging of forests, mining and an epidemic of salmon poaching has begun to threaten the salmon runs. Working with local government and Russian conservation leaders, the Wild Salmon Center has been securing the protection of millions to acres, reforming commercial salmon fisheries and opening up new rivers to catch and release fly fishing.
Guido Rahr will screen the short documentary film "River Tigers", and then will take us to this last frontier and its incomparable salmon, trout and char ecosystems.
Under Mr. Rahr’s leadership, Wild Salmon Center has developed scientific research, habitat protection and fisheries improvement projects in dozens of rivers in Japan, the Russian Far East, Alaska, British Columbia and the US Pacific Northwest, raising over $100 million in grants, establishing eight new conservation organizations, and protecting three million acres of habitat including public lands management designations and eight new large scale habitat reserves on key salmon rivers across the Pacific Rim.
Learn more about the Wild Salmon Center at:
wildsalmoncenter.org/
Hosted by Club Member Deirdre Brennan.
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That is so cool, I'm from BC and had no idea that pacific salmon even spawned over there. I would love to visit Kamchatka one day, hopefully as a scientist.
Thanks. I’m gona share this video. Those people are rolemodels.
Thank you for such a informative and educational video that was so full of valuable information that one would have to watch it several times to absorb all Narrator presented.
Amazing!thank you
Why does every single scientist and government agency blame the man on the river with a rod in his hand for the decline in salmon stocks? In 2020 after the Covid travel restrictions lifted I traveled to an excellent Irish salmon river, they had the biggest run of fish they have EVER seen!!! The following year I fished one of the primary tributaries of the river Tay where I chatted to a guide who said Scotland had an exceptionally good salmon run too that year. The common denominator was the fact that all the pelagic trawlers were in port and their crews furloughed. I tracked the FV Margiris last year and found it was on a course between the top of Northern Ireland and the southern tip of Greenland where it claimed to be fishing for herring, well it’s a well known fact that Altantic salmon travel with herring because they are a food source, this ship caused one of the worst spring salmon fishing seasons in Irish and Scottish rivers last year directly from that action. They make it illegal to land wild salmon in European ports, but is seems perfectly legal to meet Russian boats at sea and offload the Salmon to them who land them without penalty and then sell them on to China. I just wish our governments would waken up and ban the boats, there is much more income to be made from angling than there is from the mass destruction and slaughter of these magnificent fish.
Salmon chanted evening You will meet a stranger Sorry