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See the short film "Wild Salmon of the Pacific" by WSC and the International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP). Watch Now.

Hatched and Wild Salmon: A Bad Mix?

The New York Times Green blog looks at most recent evidence scientists have on interactions between wild with hatched salmon in our rivers and oceans, including a collection of 23 studies published this week in a special issue of the journal Environmental Biology of Fishes. Read article.

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IUCN Sockeye Assessment

State of the Salmon has created a new interactive website where you can visually explore the data used for the IUCN's recent assessment of sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka). Launch Visual Sockeye.

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Центр Дикого Лосося

Центр дикого лосося (ЦДЛ) - единственная международная природоохранная организация, целью которой является сохранение тихоокеанского лосося во всем его ареале. ЦДЛ сотрудничает с государственными, муниципальными и частными структурами в целях объединения усилий для сохранения естественных экосистем в северной части Тихого океана.

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Celebrating 20 years of healthy wild salmon rivers

The mission of the Wild Salmon Center is to identify, understand and protect the best wild salmon ecosystems of the Pacific Rim. We devise and implement practical strategies, based on the best science, to protect forever these extraordinary places and their biodiversity.

News & Updates

New Research Points Toward Growing Risks from Hatchery Fish

A newly published collection of more than 20 studies by leading university scientists and government fishery researchers in Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California, Russia and Japan provides mounting evidence that salmon raised in man-made hatcheries can harm wild salmon through competition for food and habitat. Read More.

Pebble Mine and Alaska's Bristol Bay

Wild Salmon Center and Trout Unlimited have produced a comprehensive report examining the proposed Pebble Mine and its potential impacts to the world-class salmon fishery of Bristol Bay, Alaska. Learn why this mine is a gamble we cannot take.

A Win for Wild Fish

WSC and partners have helped secure the first Wild Salmonid Management Zone in Washington State. The new zone will cover the entire Sol Duc River on the Olympic Peninsula affording protection to one of the most prolific areas for wild steelhead in the state. Read More.

Protected Area Progess in Russia

WSC and partners make headway in efforts to establish nine parks and reserves in the Russian Far East with a combined watershed area of over eight million acres. Read More.

Breakthroughs on Oregon's North Coast

Call for “visible and durable” conservation areas on Tillamook and Clatsop State Forest and appointment of first fisheries biologist to Oregon Board of Forestry. Read More.