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Artifishal

The big question is, who pays for the raising of thefish and who gets the benefits?

The big question is, who pays for the raising of the
fish and who gets the benefits?

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The big question is,
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who pays for the raising of the fish and who gets the benefits?
Duration
9 seconds
Views
27
Timestamp in Movie
00:40:44
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.
Fish that go out of the Columbia River circle around Alaska, - Artifishal 00:10
Fish that go out of the Columbia River circle around Alaska,
Their survival rate goes down to .001 or so. - Artifishal 00:05
Their survival rate goes down to .001 or so.
Some of those fish, we figure, cost over a thousand dollars. - Artifishal 00:06
Some of those fish, we figure, cost over a thousand dollars.
The Entiat Hatchery on the upper Columbia was producing spring chinook salmon - Artifishal 00:11
The Entiat Hatchery on the upper Columbia was producing spri...
State and federal agencies plant more than a hundred million rainbow trout - Artifishal 00:07
State and federal agencies plant more than a hundred million...
In some of our most protected wilderness areas, - Artifishal 00:08
In some of our most protected wilderness areas,
Taxpayers spend money every year to drop millions of non-native fish - Artifishal 00:09
Taxpayers spend money every year to drop millions of non-nat...
Billions of dollars of citizen public money is spent - Artifishal 00:08
Billions of dollars of citizen public money is spent
We're on a path to where there eventually will be no fish, - Artifishal 00:07
We're on a path to where there eventually will be no fi...
They know how to live in those environments, they know how to reproduce. - Artifishal 00:04
They know how to live in those environments, they know how t...
So if we allow fish to get back to being fish - Artifishal 00:15
So if we allow fish to get back to being fish
The concept in the earliest days of settlement in the west - Artifishal 00:09
The concept in the earliest days of settlement in the west
Understanding of our place in the universe changes. - Artifishal 00:05
Understanding of our place in the universe changes.
But this understanding that we have to take care of the land, - Artifishal 00:16
But this understanding that we have to take care of the land...
Managing our water resources is important in our agricultural pursuits, - Artifishal 00:09
Managing our water resources is important in our agricultura...
And this fishery is one of the great fisheries in the world, - Artifishal 00:08
And this fishery is one of the great fisheries in the world,
So for us to succeed, we need our community and our river systems - Artifishal 00:08
So for us to succeed, we need our community and our river sy...
Going back a ways, this is really the place in Montana - Artifishal 00:08
Going back a ways, this is really the place in Montana
There were hatchery-raised fish that were put in here - Artifishal 00:13
There were hatchery-raised fish that were put in here
We were doing estimates now on the Madison, - Artifishal 00:09
We were doing estimates now on the Madison,