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That's effectively artificial spawning at a hatchery
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That's effectively artificialspawning at a hatchery

That's effectively artificial
spawning at a hatchery

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That's effectively artificial spawning at a hatchery.
Duration
4 seconds
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22
Timestamp in Movie
00:22:30
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's been a lot of effort over the last several decades - Artifishal 00:14
There's been a lot of effort over the last several deca...
Salmon have developed an incredible amount of diversity - Artifishal 00:12
Salmon have developed an incredible amount of diversity
A huge river system will have huge salmon. - Artifishal 00:04
A huge river system will have huge salmon.
Some of them used to run up to 100 pounds - Artifishal 00:10
Some of them used to run up to 100 pounds
And then little coastal streams, they had mostly smaller ones, - Artifishal 00:08
And then little coastal streams, they had mostly smaller one...
Even in one river, where you have one species of a certain size, - Artifishal 00:14
Even in one river, where you have one species of a certain s...
We've been stocking salmon since the time of Darwin. - Artifishal 00:06
We've been stocking salmon since the time of Darwin.
When we first discovered how to take eggs and take milt - Artifishal 00:12
When we first discovered how to take eggs and take milt
We now know that taking wild fish - Artifishal 00:12
We now know that taking wild fish
Fish are very complex critters - Artifishal 00:16
Fish are very complex critters
What happens is you create a genetically inferior fish - Artifishal 00:16
What happens is you create a genetically inferior fish
What we do with fish hatcheries - Artifishal 00:05
What we do with fish hatcheries
Economically it makes more sense to put a bazillion chickens in one place, - Artifishal 00:09
Economically it makes more sense to put a bazillion chickens...
You know, if nature can produce X number of fish in a river, - Artifishal 00:08
You know, if nature can produce X number of fish in a river,
It's not increasing our number of wild fish. - Artifishal 00:05
It's not increasing our number of wild fish.
It's eventually going to extirpate all fish. - Artifishal 00:04
It's eventually going to extirpate all fish.
Life diversifies in order to survive. - Artifishal 00:05
Life diversifies in order to survive.
And humans do the opposite: - Artifishal 00:08
And humans do the opposite:
And by imposing simplification - Artifishal 00:13
And by imposing simplification
Well, the fish toss is, is that we take the fish that return to the hatchery, - Artifishal 00:07
Well, the fish toss is, is that we take the fish that return...