Coho: A Bright Spot in Salmon Recovery
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An expanded fishing season off the Oregon Coast. Early fishing at the Columbia River’s Buoy 10. Record returns above Willamette Falls. For Oregon coho salmon fishers, an exceptionally good 2024 fishing season has been a welcome surprise. For salmon conservationists, takeaways are a bit more complicated. “When we have strong returns like this, we want to understand what’s going well, so we can do more of that, if we can,” says Wild Salmon Center Watershed Restoration Director Jess Helsley. “But in salmon recovery, there’s an ocean of factors at play.”
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The World's First Salmon IMAX:
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This summer across salmon country, film crews fanned out to capture key footage for the world's first giant screen film on salmon. In Bristol Bay, cameras tracked the legendary bears of Funnel Creek. In British Columbia, crews dropped into the Dean River with fly fishers, and filmed a traditional fish weir kitted out with cutting-edge science tech on the Koeye. Interweaving the salmon life cycle with stories of people and places intimately connected to these fish, this ambitious WSC-sponsored film project is slated to wrap by the end of 2025, landing in IMAX and other giant screen theaters in 2026.
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In Case You Missed It: We Live-Streamed
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Wild Salmon Center's first-ever virtual event kicked off on Oct. 9. Hundreds tuned in for the latest salmon conservation updates from President & CEO Guido Rahr, Alaska Director Emily Anderson, Watershed Restoration Director Jess Helsley, and Senior Watershed Scientist Dr. Will Atlas. Couldn't make the show? You're just a click away from the replay. And if we moved you to help boost our work, consider joining our Stronghold Guardian Circle as a monthly donor. (As a token of appreciation for your gift, you'll get a WSC-exclusive Rising Sockeye hat.)
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Meet Wild Salmon Center Donor
Ratmir Timashev |
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In 2021, tech leader Ratmir Timashev sat down to read the book Stronghold—the story of Wild Salmon Center CEO Guido Rahr’s quest to save the world’s wild salmon. Later that year, he met Rahr himself, while fly fishing in Bristol Bay, Alaska. "Guido opened my eyes to a much larger story about both salmon and our planet,” says Timashev, the founder of Veeam Software. Today, the business luminary sees parallels between WSC's "stronghold" approach to salmon conservation and his own success in the world of technology.
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| The mission of the Wild Salmon Center is to promote the conservation and sustainable use of wild salmon ecosystems across the Pacific Rim.
Photo credits (from top): Oregon Coast Coho (Paul Jeffrey); Alaska bear chasing salmon (Dorsey Pictures); Headwaters graphic (WSC); Guide Evan Schock and Ratmir Timashev (left) fishing in Crystal Creek, Alaska (Guido Rahr); Babine River, British Columbia (Ken Morrish @FlyWaterTravel).
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