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  • A brown bear takes a break from feasting on salmon in Kamchatka, Russia. The western Bering Sea suffers from high levels of illegal fishing and many areas are overfished. The increasing demand for salmon and salmon caviar, a delicacy in Russia and Japan, is reducing salmon populations beyond the point which they can naturally recover.  Salmon habitat is also under increasing development pressure. The pristine rivers - spawning grounds for salmon - and surrounding landscape are being cut by roads and infrastructure for development. Bears are being threatened not only by poaching but by a dwindling food source.
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  • Kamchatkan Brown bears eat sockeye salmon in Kurilskoye Lake in the southern tip of the Russian peninsula August 5, 2007. The salmon and bears are both threatened as poachers and hunters pay large sums in a depressed economy.
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  • Sockeye salmon that are still grey in color because they just arrived from the sea to the fresh water of the river wait to enter into Kurilskoye Lake at a research institute fish counting gate in the southern tip of the Russian peninsula August 7, 2007. The salmon  are threatened as poachers are paid large sums in a depressed economy for the caviar.
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  • Sockeye salmon that are still grey in color because they just arrived from the sea to the fresh water of the river wait to enter into Kurilskoye Lake at a research institute fish counting gate in the southern tip of the Russian peninsula August 7, 2007. The salmon  are threatened as poachers are paid large sums in a depressed economy for the caviar.
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  • Sockeye salmon that are still grey in color because they just arrived from the sea to the fresh water of the river wait to enter into Kurilskoye Lake at a research institute fish counting gate in the southern tip of the Russian peninsula August 7, 2007. The salmon  are threatened as poachers are paid large sums in a depressed economy for the caviar.
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  • Sockeye salmon that are still grey in color because they just arrived from the sea to the fresh water of the river wait to enter into Kurilskoye Lake at a research institute fish counting gate in the southern tip of the Russian peninsula August 7, 2007. The salmon  are threatened as poachers are paid large sums in a depressed economy for the caviar.
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  • Sockeye salmon that are still grey in color because they just arrived from the sea to the fresh water of the river wait to enter into Kurilskoye Lake at a research institute fish counting gate in the southern tip of the Russian peninsula August 7, 2007. The salmon  are threatened as poachers are paid large sums in a depressed economy for the caviar.
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  • Sockeye salmon that are still grey in color because they just arrived from the sea to the fresh water of the river wait to enter into Kurilskoye Lake at a research institute fish counting gate in the southern tip of the Russian peninsula August 7, 2007. The salmon  are threatened as poachers are paid large sums in a depressed economy for the caviar.
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  • Sockeye salmon that are still grey in color because they just arrived from the sea to the fresh water of the river wait to enter into Kurilskoye Lake at a research institute fish counting gate in the southern tip of the Russian peninsula August 7, 2007. The salmon  are threatened as poachers are paid large sums in a depressed economy for the caviar.
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  • Luba Nikolaevich Glazyrin takes a bath and a sauna together with Akuguk Denis Renatovich  (9) and Akuguk Danil Renatovich  (6) at a camp along the banks of the river Vyvenka in Khailina, Kamchatka.
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  • Seasonal fish workers take a break after processing a small amount of salmon brought in late in the evening at the factory Okean -Zapad in Ust Bosheresk, Kamchatka. The dwindling salmon population illustrates that wildlife and humans alike are at risk  on both sides of the international boundary line.  The western Bering Sea suffers from high levels of illegal fishing and many areas are overfished. The increasing demand for salmon and salmon caviar, a delicacy in Russia and Japan, is reducing salmon populations beyond the point which they can naturally recover. Over the last two decades, the relatively well-protected Kamchatka fisheries have deteriorated along with the capacity of management agencies to enforce laws regulating harvest. Salmon habitat is also under increasing development pressure. The pristine rivers of the Kamchatka Peninsula - spawning grounds for salmon - and surrounding landscape are being cut by roads and infrastructure for mining and oil and gas expansion. 
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  • Akuguk Roman Cholkovich (74), an indigenous Chukchu tribal hangs salmon at their summer fishing camp along the river Vyvenka in Khailino, Kamchatka. His family along with other indigenous families are most vulnerable to the dwindling salmon stocks as they rely on it as a main source of protein for the entire year. Poaching in Kamchatka is on such a large scale that, like the sturgeon, the Pacific salmon is at risk of disappearing altogether. The economy is struggling and the only way for most people to survive is through poaching and fishing in the short summer months. So now the fish population is rapidly declining as poachers collect the eggs and don't allow the salmon to spawn for the next generations
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  • Akuguk Roman Cholkovich (74) and  his wife Raisa Romanovna (79), indigenous Chukchu tribals rest after a 16 hour day of catching salmon that they filet and dry at their summer fishing camp along the river Vyvenka in Khailino, Kamchatka July 15, 2007. Most indigenous people rely on the salmon harvested in the summer for the whole year. They dry it and feed it to themselves and their dogs that they use to get around on sleds in the harsh winter months. Because the area is so remote and no longer subsidized by the Russian or Soviet government of the past goods and gasoline are extremely expensive. The economy is struggling and the only way for most people to survive is through poaching and fishing in the short summer months. So now the fish population is rapidly declining as poachers collect the eggs and don't allow the salmon to spawn for the next generations.
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  • Koryak men who have been hired as salmon caviar poachers gather spawning fish along the Vyvenka river near Khailinina in Northern Kamchatka. Poaching is one of the biggest dangers to wild salmon. Since salmon eggs are in high demand in some countries like Russia and far more lucrative than any other viable trade in the region, many see this as the only opportunity for survival. The result is a vast decrease among the salmon population. Over the years, demand for salmon has gone up, while the population of salmon has steadily gone down. If this growing trend continues, it may not be long before salmon are on the verge of extinction.
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