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We've been stocking salmon since the time of Darwin
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We've been stocking salmonsince the time of Darwin

We've been stocking salmon
since the time of Darwin

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We've been stocking salmon since the time of Darwin.
Duration
6 seconds
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Timestamp in Movie
00:23:48
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.
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...
We have this tote of fish, - Artifishal 00:13
We have this tote of fish,
We talked about the five reasons why we're doing this a little bit ago. - Artifishal 00:04
We talked about the five reasons why we're doing this a...
We partner with the Nisqually Indian tribe, - Artifishal 00:08
We partner with the Nisqually Indian tribe,
They're actually full of marine-derived nutrients, - Artifishal 00:06
They're actually full of marine-derived nutrients,
When they come back, they're just carrying so much goodness from the ocean. - Artifishal 00:05
When they come back, they're just carrying so much good...
The chinook and steelhead in this watershed are threatened species, - Artifishal 00:09
The chinook and steelhead in this watershed are threatened s...
Salmon, I think they are very important for the ecosystem. - Artifishal 00:06
Salmon, I think they are very important for the ecosystem.