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Going back a ways, this is really the place in Montana
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Artifishal

Going back a ways,this is really the place inMontana where the conceptof a wild fishery...

Going back a ways,
this is really the place in
Montana where the concept
of a wild fishery started

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Going back a ways, this is really the place in Montana
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where the concept of a wild fishery started.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
30
Timestamp in Movie
00:44:06
Uploaded
Jun 14, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Patagonia

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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.
There were hatchery-raised fish that were put in here - Artifishal 00:13
There were hatchery-raised fish that were put in here
We were doing estimates now on the Madison, - Artifishal 00:09
We were doing estimates now on the Madison,
One of the first things I kept seeing is - Artifishal 00:05
One of the first things I kept seeing is
The waters that had the best fisheries - Artifishal 00:06
The waters that had the best fisheries
We'll take Varney, not stock it, - Artifishal 00:06
We'll take Varney, not stock it,
The first year that we didn't stock Varney, the upper river, - Artifishal 00:07
The first year that we didn't stock Varney, the upper r...
And, of course, when we stocked O'Dell Creek, - Artifishal 00:06
And, of course, when we stocked O'Dell Creek,
We figured, well, there's two out there and we put two more in, - Artifishal 00:07
We figured, well, there's two out there and we put two ...
Well, that's not the math that works in reality. - Artifishal 00:04
Well, that's not the math that works in reality.
Once that information became available through the Madison-O'Dell studies, - Artifishal 00:20
Once that information became available through the Madison-O...
Shortly after that program was initiated, - Artifishal 00:08
Shortly after that program was initiated,
We started our fly shop in 1979, a few years after the hatchery program - Artifishal 00:08
We started our fly shop in 1979, a few years after the hatch...
And we were fortunate to catch that wave of a wild trout fishery. - Artifishal 00:05
And we were fortunate to catch that wave of a wild trout fis...
We saw an increase in the number of anglers that came to Montana, - Artifishal 00:10
We saw an increase in the number of anglers that came to Mon...
And that's what really kicked in the fly-fishing businesses at that time. - Artifishal 00:06
And that's what really kicked in the fly-fishing busine...
People are more attuned to a healthy river - Artifishal 00:05
People are more attuned to a healthy river
They see the whole cascade of everything that benefits - Artifishal 00:08
They see the whole cascade of everything that benefits
The one thing that came out of this to me - Artifishal 00:13
The one thing that came out of this to me
And habitat becomes more important - Artifishal 00:06
And habitat becomes more important
As most of you already know, - Artifishal 00:09
As most of you already know,