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There are more 50-pounders caught here than anywhere else
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Artifishal

There are more 50-pounderscaught herethan anywhere else

There are more 50-pounders
caught here
than anywhere else

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There are more 50-pounders caught here than anywhere else.
Duration
5 seconds
Views
20
Timestamp in Movie
00:54:13
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 quite a big difference on the river that I see today. - Artifishal 00:05
There's quite a big difference on the river that I see ...
The DNA on the Alta salmon is not like it was before. - Artifishal 00:06
The DNA on the Alta salmon is not like it was before.
I see no difference between a fish farm and a hatchery fish. - Artifishal 00:05
I see no difference between a fish farm and a hatchery fish.
You get escapees from these fish farms, sometimes millions of fish escape. - Artifishal 00:06
You get escapees from these fish farms, sometimes millions o...
And then they breed with wild fish, dumbing down the genes. - Artifishal 00:06
And then they breed with wild fish, dumbing down the genes.
I really always wanted to see... see one of these farms. - Artifishal 00:06
I really always wanted to see... see one of these farms.
And we sneaked up to one of these farms. - Artifishal 00:04
And we sneaked up to one of these farms.
But I didn't think it was going to be that bad. - Artifishal 00:04
But I didn't think it was going to be that bad.
They had fungus. They looked like S's. - Artifishal 00:05
They had fungus. They looked like S's.
There were wounds big as my hand. - Artifishal 00:05
There were wounds big as my hand.
You show this to the moms that want to feed their kids with this. - Artifishal 00:05
You show this to the moms that want to feed their kids with ...
They will never buy one of these fish. - Artifishal 00:04
They will never buy one of these fish.
It was like, if you should walk into a farm - Artifishal 00:13
It was like, if you should walk into a farm
No one, but these things are happening under the surface, you know? - Artifishal 00:06
No one, but these things are happening under the surface, yo...
The thing is, we lost one thing here and we lost respect for the ecosystem. - Artifishal 00:06
The thing is, we lost one thing here and we lost respect for...
We're the guys that should protect the rivers, - Artifishal 00:08
We're the guys that should protect the rivers,
My responsibility is not to feed the people in the world, OK? - Artifishal 00:06
My responsibility is not to feed the people in the world, OK...
If I have a responsibility, - Artifishal 00:11
If I have a responsibility,
And that is to get these into the closed tanks. - Artifishal 00:05
And that is to get these into the closed tanks.
If it will double the price of the salmon, it's worth it. - Artifishal 00:05
If it will double the price of the salmon, it's worth i...