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Artifishal

Between California, Oregon,Washington and Idaho, citizens pay for the releaseof almost 280...

Between California, Oregon,
Washington and Idaho, citizens pay for the release
of almost 280 million fish per
year

Full Transcript

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Between California, Oregon, Washington and Idaho,
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citizens pay for the release of almost 280 million fish per year.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
33
Timestamp in Movie
00:40:01
Uploaded
Jun 14, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Patagonia

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Movie Summary

Narratives of ecologists and conservationists are pitted against the human tendency to engineer and control in this probing documentary on the lucrative salmon-hatchery industry.
Last year, between the United States, Canada, Russia, Korea, and Japan, - Artifishal 00:08
Last year, between the United States, Canada, Russia, Korea,...
When I wrote my first book, - Artifishal 00:14
When I wrote my first book,
Since 1982, they've spent 15 billion. - Artifishal 00:04
Since 1982, they've spent 15 billion.
The General Accounting Office - Artifishal 00:10
The General Accounting Office
The big question is, - Artifishal 00:09
The big question is,
Fish that go out of the Columbia River circle around Alaska, - Artifishal 00:10
Fish that go out of the Columbia River circle around Alaska,
Their survival rate goes down to .001 or so. - Artifishal 00:05
Their survival rate goes down to .001 or so.
Some of those fish, we figure, cost over a thousand dollars. - Artifishal 00:06
Some of those fish, we figure, cost over a thousand dollars.
The Entiat Hatchery on the upper Columbia was producing spring chinook salmon - Artifishal 00:11
The Entiat Hatchery on the upper Columbia was producing spri...
State and federal agencies plant more than a hundred million rainbow trout - Artifishal 00:07
State and federal agencies plant more than a hundred million...
In some of our most protected wilderness areas, - Artifishal 00:08
In some of our most protected wilderness areas,
Taxpayers spend money every year to drop millions of non-native fish - Artifishal 00:09
Taxpayers spend money every year to drop millions of non-nat...
Billions of dollars of citizen public money is spent - Artifishal 00:08
Billions of dollars of citizen public money is spent
We're on a path to where there eventually will be no fish, - Artifishal 00:07
We're on a path to where there eventually will be no fi...
They know how to live in those environments, they know how to reproduce. - Artifishal 00:04
They know how to live in those environments, they know how t...
So if we allow fish to get back to being fish - Artifishal 00:15
So if we allow fish to get back to being fish
The concept in the earliest days of settlement in the west - Artifishal 00:09
The concept in the earliest days of settlement in the west
Understanding of our place in the universe changes. - Artifishal 00:05
Understanding of our place in the universe changes.
But this understanding that we have to take care of the land, - Artifishal 00:16
But this understanding that we have to take care of the land...
Managing our water resources is important in our agricultural pursuits, - Artifishal 00:09
Managing our water resources is important in our agricultura...