The Kamchatka River (also known as the Jopanova River), runs eastward through Kamchatka province in the far east of Russia towards the Pacific Ocean. The river is rich with salmon and has been only lightly fished.

During the Soviet era the government threatend to build a dam that would devastate the salmon and their habitat, however the fishermen were able to stop the threat to their river and get the government to agree to halt construction of the dam. The river is almost totally undisturbed by modern society.