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Russian Far East

  • Wild Salmon Center Named “Undesirable” By Russian Government

    WSC joins a growing list of international conservation organizations banned from working in Russia.

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  • New Research Finds Taimen’s Supersized Strength in DNA

    New research from scientists including WSC’s Dr. Matt Sloat suggests that protecting genetic diversity could help save the world’s largest salmonid.

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  • Life History Project

    Every salmon champion has a journey. Every journey shapes the movement. Follow the journey of three WSC staff as they found their way to salmon country.

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  • Russia Tugur Siberian taimen

    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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  • 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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  • Opala River, Russia

    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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