Salmonidae is a non-profit global organization dedicated to the preservation of salmonid species and the rivers they depend on.
The name Salmonidae comes from the Latin scientific classification for the family of fish that includes salmon, trout, char, grayling, huchen, taimen, and other cold-water freshwater species found across the northern hemisphere.
These fish are among the most important indicators of a healthy river system.
Salmonids require cold, clean, oxygen-rich water and intact migration routes to survive. When these species disappear from a river, the effects rarely stop with the fish themselves. It impacts insects, birds, forests, predators, water quality, local communities, and entire ecosystems connected to the river.
In many ways, salmon are nature's warning system.
Protecting salmonids ultimately means protecting rivers. And protecting rivers means protecting far more than water alone.
This is not only an effort to preserve fish species, but to help preserve living river systems — and the cultural, ecological, and historical importance surrounding them.
Many of the rivers that shaped communities and traditions for centuries are under growing pressure from pollution, fragmentation, overdevelopment, warming waters, and loss of biodiversity. At the same time, much of the respect, knowledge, and stewardship once naturally connected to rivers is slowly disappearing as well.
We started Salmonidae because we believe rivers deserve a stronger cultural and ecological presence in the modern world.
Our ambition is not to create another loud environmental campaign, but to build a long-term institution around rivers and salmonid ecosystems — one that brings together conservation, science, storytelling, restoration, education, and cultural preservation under a shared vision.
A place where fishermen, scientists, conservationists, governments, local communities, landowners, artists, and supporters can contribute toward the same goal: ensuring that future generations inherit living rivers, not memories of them.
