Feb 19th, 2016: Kamchatka Salmon

[xoxoxoBruce]

The Kamchatka Peninsula is a big old 1,250 mile dong, sticking out into the Pacific north of Japan.
100,000 square miles, with about 330,000 people, and all six of the Pacific Salmon species.
Salmon like it there, they voted it number one in a Salmon Gazette poll, probably because that's where the get laid,
hatch, and go back to spawn.


Know why he's red?.................. It's Russia.

Kamchatka contains probably the world's greatest diversity of salmonid fish, including all six species of anadromous Pacific salmon (chinook, chum, coho, seema, pink, and sockeye).

Biologists estimate that a sixth to a quarter of all Pacific salmon originates in Kamchatka. Kuril Lake is recognized as the biggest spawning-ground for sockeye in Eurasia. In response to pressure from poaching and to worldwide decreases in salmon stocks, some 24,000 square kilometers (9,300 sq mi) along nine of the more productive salmon rivers are in the process of being set aside as a nature preserve.

It's Friday, so eat up, the bear ain't waiting for you.


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