Resources

The Kamchatka Steelhead Project was developed jointly by the Ichthyology Department of Moscow State University (Russia) and the Wild Salmon Center (USA) to study and conserve steelhead, a species listed in the Red Book of Russia. In the first five years of work (1994-1998), participants in the joint program conducted expeditions on eight rivers in western Kamchatka collected a wide variety of scientific materials and data.

The Wild Salmon Center (WSC) sponsored an economic analysis project to review the effects of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) Coastal Multi-Species Conservation and
Management Plan (CMP).

“Protecting any wild land under law in the 21st century is an extraordinary achievement, but the Koppi stands out, Mariusz Wroblewski at the WSC told us, because, ‘it is the best sea-run taimen river in the world.’ The refuge’s charter evolved out of ten years of hearings at the local, regional, and federal levels that sought, Wroblewski says, to answer ‘the central question of, ‘How can the community that relies on the resource somehow protect it?’'”