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A family puts out caviar to begin the wedding celebration as a bride gets ready in the kitchen of her home in Khailino. The roe of salmon is a delicacy served at festive celebrations and her father worked all night to get enough to feed the entire…

A motorcycle with sidecar speeds toward a MI 8 helicopter that has just landed in a remote Russian village. The woman in the side car needs medical attention and a helicopter is the only way out.

Fish for sale in a market in Petropavlovsk are on the endangered species list. Poaching is so mainstream that it is even available in the main fish market in Kamchatka's biggest city.

A fishing brigade makes a camp out of a beached ocean vessel. They are forced to take the day off to allow the salmon to get downriver to indigenous fishermen.

Fishermen and their friends watch the catch unloaded from nets. Commercial fishermen take 40-60 percent of the salmon every year and scientists figure poachers take the same amount.

Brown bears thrive on salmon in Kurilskoe Lake Preserve, a world heritage site.

An oxbow river cuts through pristine tundra channeling water into a preserve that is perfect for salmon. Seven species of fish migrate up rivers making this region the richest in natural resources.

Kamchatka is a narrow peninsula in Russia the size of California--a pristine landscape and the last place where all seven species of salmon still exist. The salmon migrate from the Sea of Okhotsk into eight major river systems where brown bears and…

A spotted Eagle ray (Aetobatus narinari) swims between two reef structures at a site called Angel City in Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles on Wednesday, June 3, 2009.

A Scorpion fish (Scorpaena plumieri) lies motionless on a coral head in Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles on Wednesday, June 10, 2009. These fish are very difficult to spot as their camouflage is so effective. They lie still, visually blending into the…