Kathmandu, Jan. 24 -- Few Nepalis know where Kamchatka is, and the ones who do probably heard about it from the board game 'Risk', where it is described as the remote region between Asia and North America.
Kamchatka Krai, as it is known in Russia, is a land of active volcanoes and hundreds of thousands of pristine rivers that flow down to the Sea of Okhotsk. It teems with brown bears, salmon and trout.
For a group of eight Nepalis brought together by their passion for fishing, this was paradise. In the past, they had explored Himalayan rivers in Nepal and India in pursuit of the iconic golden mahseer. But overfishing, habitat loss and failures of conservation have led to massive depletion of this magnificent fish.
Taking a roundabout ro...