Experience the Pacific Rim’s extraordinary wild salmon strongholds with this short film by the Wild Salmon Center and the International League of Conservation Photographers.

Salmon strongholds are centers of abundance and diversity, serving as the foundation for healthy wild fisheries, economies and communities across the North Pacific Rim.

Quotes from “Strongholds: Hope for Wild Pacific Salmon”

It is the obligation of all of us to ensure the most magnificent species of the Northwest has a friend. The salmon are depending on all of us.”
Tom Brokaw

Tom Brokaw

We need to look at the healthy areas, healthy watersheds and figure out how they can stay that way.”
Congressman Mike Thompson (D-CA)

Congressman Mike Thompson (D-CA)

Photographers: Octavio Aburto, Dmitry Arbuzov (Sakhalin Environment Watch), Bridget Besaw, Matthias Brieter, Jeff Gale, Amy Gulick, Leo Keeler, Robert Glenn Ketchum, Garth Lenz, Chris Linder, Magnus Lundgren, Thomas Mangelsen, Igor Shpilenok, Roy Toft, Staffan Widstrand, Andy Wright, Art Wolfe.

Videographers: Matthias Brieter, Dmitry Shpilenok, Mark Christmas, Jenny Nichols, Trip Jennings, Andy Maser.

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