Marine capacity building in a changing global setting

All 6 species of Pacific salmon, including coho, sockeye, trout and char remain abundant in the Utkholok and other rivers in the Kamchatka, a Russian peninsula. The peninsula's governments are at work on proposals that would designate seven sprawling tracts of wilderness as salmon-protected areas, a network of refuges for highly valuable fish that would be the first of its kind. Encompassing 9 entire rivers and more than 6 million acres, the protected watersheds would exceed the scale of many renowned preserved areas in the USA. Their purpose would be to produce wild salmon for food, profit, recreation,and scientific-study and as a genetic reserve of one of the World's most commercially and culturally important fish.