However, despite being technically classified as landlocked, Kazakhstan borders the northeastern Caspian Sea, which has unfulfilled potential for cage farming, according to Organic Fish – which aims to establish the sea’s first cage farm for rearing salmonids. Not only does the prospective producer have ambitions to increase the nation’s fish consumption with locally farmed steelhead, but it also has aspirations of contributing to the conservation of a threatened endemic salmonid species – the Caspian salmon.