Kamchatka, Russia | Where the Salmon Rule, National Geographic Magazine: Former Soviet Fish Processing Town

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Ust Bolsheretsk is small town built on the fish industry on the west coast of Kamchatka or the mouth of the Bolshaya River. The Russian community was founded solely because of fishing and the population of a little over 2,000 doubles in the summer making it hard to find a place to stay.