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If we let these runs go, then they are gone
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Artifishal

If we let these runs go,then they are gone, and I do not think that we,as people who are...

If we let these runs go,
then they are gone, and I do not think that we,
as people who are on this planet
now, should be OK with allowing
salmon to go extinct on our
watch

Full Transcript

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If we let these runs go, then they are gone,
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and I do not think that we, as people who are on this planet now,
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should be OK with allowing salmon to go extinct on our watch.
Duration
15 seconds
Views
26
Timestamp in Movie
00:10:26
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.
The average person, when they see a salmon, - Artifishal 00:07
The average person, when they see a salmon,
And it's perhaps at the end of their fishing line, - Artifishal 00:11
And it's perhaps at the end of their fishing line,
Salmon, I think, have the most complicated, - Artifishal 00:11
Salmon, I think, have the most complicated,
They start life by hatching from eggs in a stream. - Artifishal 00:06
They start life by hatching from eggs in a stream.
You're distilling the richness of the ocean - Artifishal 00:09
You're distilling the richness of the ocean
And then that enlivened distillation of the ocean propels itself - Artifishal 00:10
And then that enlivened distillation of the ocean propels it...
Sometimes they go well over a thousand miles inland, - Artifishal 00:13
Sometimes they go well over a thousand miles inland,
And their carcasses feed dozens of kinds of animals, - Artifishal 00:09
And their carcasses feed dozens of kinds of animals,
The life cycle of the salmon is actually the transformation of the ocean - Artifishal 00:11
The life cycle of the salmon is actually the transformation ...
Wild salmon represent something that is really important - Artifishal 00:06
Wild salmon represent something that is really important
You have Native American cultures here - Artifishal 00:07
You have Native American cultures here
You have, you know, families like mine - Artifishal 00:09
You have, you know, families like mine
And then I think because this is the age of human impact, - Artifishal 00:12
And then I think because this is the age of human impact,
All of my earliest memories revolve around fish in some way or another. - Artifishal 00:05
All of my earliest memories revolve around fish in some way ...
As a young adult, I built my whole calendar year - Artifishal 00:08
As a young adult, I built my whole calendar year
And that really became my obsession. - Artifishal 00:04
And that really became my obsession.
I thought of hatcheries as something that actually kind of helped us as fishermen, - Artifishal 00:11
I thought of hatcheries as something that actually kind of h...
I don't think I ever had one second where I thought about conservation at all. - Artifishal 00:06
I don't think I ever had one second where I thought abo...
I thought about getting enough money for gas and pizza - Artifishal 00:06
I thought about getting enough money for gas and pizza
What I didn't realize was that we were really at the tail end - Artifishal 00:09
What I didn't realize was that we were really at the ta...