Gennady Yuryevich Zharkov, President of the Noncommercial  Partnership “Russian Salmon” about the catch-and-release principle:

The rivers of Sakhalin Northwest - the only thing in the world the place of simpatry Sakhalin and Siberian taimens.

The Sakhalin Ainu called the Sakhalin taimen of "Chirai", Hokkaido - "Obirame", Nivkhs - "Goy", Japanese - "Ito".

The end of April and the beginning of May are a special time for ichthyologists of the Sakhalin branch of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Glavrybvod." Year after year, it was on these spring days that they went on expeditions, opening the season of great work.

At Tahoe Lake (Nevada, USA), a workshop was held to assess the status of taimens.

A meeting of the section on lampreys and fish of the Commission on rare and endangered animals, plants and mushrooms was chaired by Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences D. S. Pavlov.