     This issue bears on two focal topics - conservation of the Pacific salmon and the notorious "factory trawling wars". The salmon topic opens with a debating article "Fish Cemeteries: Who Is To Blame?" revealing the problems of the pink salmon stock exploitation on Kamchatka West Coast, where the last year's pink salmon spawning run reached its all-time high for this century.

     Over in the Bristol Bay, American fishermen sound alarm for disastrous drop in the sockeye abundance. Read through the article "Down In The Bay" presented in the September 1998 issue of the National Fisherman Magazine.

     Two articles have been dedicated to salvation of the Columbia River salmon in the U.S.: "The Congress Voted To Remove Dams To Save Salmon" and "The Tragedy Of Columbia Salmon". The current problems of Kamchatka salmon salvation in Russia are in the scorching spotlights of the "Will The Kamchatka Salmon Persevere?" and the "Red Caviar On the Dress-Suit".

     The issue continues on the keynote set in "The Sea Of Discord" sequence of articles in the previous issue. For heated disputes over the super factory trawlers' presence in the Exclusive Economic Zone of the Russian Federation look out for the cycle of articles entitled "The Factory Trawling Wars".

     Here, you will acquaint yourself with the materials dwelling on the revival of the Russian shipbuilding industry, entitled "Livadia: The Birthplace Of A Brand-New Fleet", a sketch from an Austrian zoo, entitled "In The Strange Land", a picture report about the life of birds, entitled "The Winter On The Kurilskoye Lake".