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Artifishal

Salmon, I think,have the most complicated, you could also say wondrouslife histories of, I...

Salmon, I think,
have the most complicated, you could also say wondrous
life histories of, I guess, any
fish

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Salmon, I think, have the most complicated,
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you could also say wondrous life histories of, I guess, any fish.
Duration
11 seconds
Views
32
Timestamp in Movie
00:11:14
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.
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...
In late 2000, they announced that the 2001 season would not happen, - Artifishal 00:17
In late 2000, they announced that the 2001 season would not ...
I mean, I had built this whole life around this fishery and now it's gone. - Artifishal 00:05
I mean, I had built this whole life around this fishery and ...
I started doing some research, started reading, - Artifishal 00:05
I started doing some research, started reading,