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It is unconscionable that when we are spending tens and tens
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Artifishal

It is unconscionable that whenwe are spending tens and tens of millions of dollars...

It is unconscionable that when
we are spending tens and tens of millions of dollars to
protect and recover wild salmon, we would allow an invasive
species to be introduced to our
ecosystem

Full Transcript

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It is unconscionable that when we are spending tens and tens
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of millions of dollars to protect and recover wild salmon,
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we would allow an invasive species to be introduced to our ecosystem.
Duration
13 seconds
Views
21
Timestamp in Movie
01:03:26
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.
Mr. President, there are 35 yea, 12 nay, 2 excused. - Artifishal 00:04
Mr. President, there are 35 yea, 12 nay, 2 excused.
Having received a constitutional majority, second substitute Senate bill 6086 - Artifishal 00:07
Having received a constitutional majority, second substitute...
The Yurok belief is that we have been here since the beginning of time. - Artifishal 00:06
The Yurok belief is that we have been here since the beginni...
At one point, this Earth was a lonely rock in the universe floating by itself - Artifishal 00:12
At one point, this Earth was a lonely rock in the universe f...
The Wah-gay, the spirit people, started creating this world. - Artifishal 00:04
The Wah-gay, the spirit people, started creating this world.
And one of the things they had done was made a relationship - Artifishal 00:06
And one of the things they had done was made a relationship
And the salmon were put here so they could sustain us - Artifishal 00:10
And the salmon were put here so they could sustain us
We also have a story of, if we don't take care of this world - Artifishal 00:11
We also have a story of, if we don't take care of this ...
The 2002 fish kill was really like the canary in the coal mine. - Artifishal 00:06
The 2002 fish kill was really like the canary in the coal mi...
It was a low-water year, but ag got their water. - Artifishal 00:05
It was a low-water year, but ag got their water.
If you divert that much water and flows get so low on the planet, - Artifishal 00:09
If you divert that much water and flows get so low on the pl...
Seventy thousand adult salmon died, all within the Klamath River. - Artifishal 00:06
Seventy thousand adult salmon died, all within the Klamath R...
The dead fish were lining the banks, you know, three, four layers deep. - Artifishal 00:06
The dead fish were lining the banks, you know, three, four l...
And it smelled like death. - Artifishal 00:04
And it smelled like death.
In a wild river, nothing like that happens, right? - Artifishal 00:05
In a wild river, nothing like that happens, right?
The future, if it goes unchanged, - Artifishal 00:08
The future, if it goes unchanged,
The tribe voted not to have a commercial salmon season this year - Artifishal 00:07
The tribe voted not to have a commercial salmon season this ...
And the subsistence amount was the lowest I think I've ever seen. - Artifishal 00:05
And the subsistence amount was the lowest I think I've ...
Tribal members used to live almost solely on returning fish runs, - Artifishal 00:09
Tribal members used to live almost solely on returning fish ...
How can you possibly look at that - Artifishal 00:09
How can you possibly look at that