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The 2002 fish kill was really like the canary in the coal mine
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Artifishal

The 2002 fish kill was reallylike the canary in the coalmine

The 2002 fish kill was really
like the canary in the coal
mine

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The 2002 fish kill was really like the canary in the coal mine.
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6 seconds
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Timestamp in Movie
01:05:24
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.
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
These reductions of the salmon runs, the big picture is, - Artifishal 00:06
These reductions of the salmon runs, the big picture is,
We know those omega oils, those omega 3s and 6s in salmon - Artifishal 00:06
We know those omega oils, those omega 3s and 6s in salmon
That's why we have a lot of elders that live to ripe old ages. - Artifishal 00:05
That's why we have a lot of elders that live to ripe ol...
But the point is, is that, what's going to happen down the road? - Artifishal 00:04
But the point is, is that, what's going to happen down ...
When your society, when your culture, when your belief - Artifishal 00:29
When your society, when your culture, when your belief
As the decline of the salmon runs come back, - Artifishal 00:10
As the decline of the salmon runs come back,
It's just a disruption of the whole sort of cycle of the tribe - Artifishal 00:07
It's just a disruption of the whole sort of cycle of th...
And I think when that happens, then all of us feel pain. - Artifishal 00:06
And I think when that happens, then all of us feel pain.
A lot of times when you're grieving or when you're hurting over something, - Artifishal 00:07
A lot of times when you're grieving or when you're...