Russian Far East

Life History Project

Coming soon: Every salmon champion has a journey. Every journey adds to the movement.

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Yonder

River Tigers

In a new film, WSC’s Guido Rahr travels deep into the Russian Far East, to the land of taimen. Journey Back in Time to the Tugur to meet the River Tiger. Premiering at the Banff Film Festival November 2020.

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Dmitry Lisitsyn

Saving Sakhalin’s Tym River From Poachers

Several residents of a village on northeastern Sakhalin Island managed the impossible: stopping a poaching epidemic.

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© Wild Salmon Center

Russia Opens New Fisheries Protections

Thanks to the hard work of our Russian partners, fishing communities and businesses can now apply to protect their fisheries from damaging development.

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WSC Staff

Russians Learn How the “Salmon State” Operates

Among the takeaways from Wild Salmon Center’s September 2019 U.S./Russia Exchange in Alaska: different ways to run hatcheries, fisheries, and anti-poaching programs. (Still unresolved: which nation has the tastier fish.)

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Watch: A Salmon Life

Wild Salmon Center CEO Guido Rahr talks about a life built around salmon, rivers and the fight to protect to the North Pacific’s keystone species.

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WSC Staff

Ultimate Ally: Alexander Kulikov

The onetime Soviet scientist’s journey to become one of the most effective conservationists in the Russian Far East.

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Stronghold Book — Now In Paperback

The launch of STRONGHOLD, a new book from Random House by Tucker Malarkey chronicles the life of WSC’s CEO Guido Rahr, and his lifelong journey to becoming a passionate leader for pacific salmon conservation.

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Wild Salmon Center

Sloat Named National Geographic Explorer

A generous grant from the National Geographic Society will continue WSC’s groundbreaking work researching Siberian and Sakhalin taimen, and it makes Dr. Sloat an official “National Geographic Explorer.”

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Wild Salmon Center

Ultimate Allies: Moore Foundation

Changing the Pacific salmon narrative from one about potentially squandered resources and loss, to one of hope and abundance.

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