The Utkholok-Kvachina Rivers
This site is a classic northern-tundra steelhead ecosystem. The ichtyologists
have been working in the Utkholok-Kvachina river complex for 40 years and
consider it to be a global reference site for steelhead trout health and
diversity.
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The Sopochnaya River
This Sopochnaya is an enormously dynamic and complex clearwater alluvial
river system, with many side channels, braids and spring brooks. Here there
are significant populations of various forms of rainbow trout, six species
of pacific salmon, two species of char, and a relatively healthy population
of endangered steelhead trout.
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The Kol - Kekhta Rivers
They are located 200 kilometres north of the Bolshaya, flowing west from the
Sredinniy mountainous spine of Kamchatka to the Sea of Okhotsk. It is planned
to establish a watershed-level, headwaters-to-ocean refuge that captures the
unusual diversity of salmonid life-history, which will become a reference
point for River ecosystem managers throughout the world.
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Bolshaya Basin
It is the southern- most of the four project sites, one of Kamchatka's main
producers of commercial salmon. Here there are the world's largest pink salmon
runs (50% of the Kamchatka- based catch) and Lake Nachikinskoye's endemic
forms of Lake and river-Lake char.
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