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Artifishal

Put that next to the fact that 40% of the salmon areextinctin their historic range and the...

Put that next to the fact that 40% of the salmon are
extinct
in their historic range and the rest are protected
by the Endangered Species Act, you would have to say that that
story didn't protect the things
that we value, the salmon

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Put that next to the fact
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that 40% of the salmon are extinct in their historic range
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and the rest are protected by the Endangered Species Act,
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you would have to say that that story
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didn't protect the things that we value, the salmon.
Duration
18 seconds
Views
27
Timestamp in Movie
00:09:35
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.
We've been relying on those same runs of fish, - Artifishal 00:08
We've been relying on those same runs of fish,
When your health is their health, right, you're married in that way, - Artifishal 00:08
When your health is their health, right, you're married...
To have that relationship with a single species is real special. - Artifishal 00:06
To have that relationship with a single species is real spec...
You think about the Sioux people and the buffalo back in the day - Artifishal 00:06
You think about the Sioux people and the buffalo back in the...
But that relationship, unfortunately, was severed. - Artifishal 00:05
But that relationship, unfortunately, was severed.
If we let these runs go, then they are gone, - Artifishal 00:15
If we let these runs go, then they are gone,
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 ...