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Artifishal

When I wrote my first book, the Bonneville PowerAdministration was spending about $140...

When I wrote my first book, the Bonneville Power
Administration was spending about $140 million
or $150 million on their program

Full Transcript

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When I wrote my first book,
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the Bonneville Power Administration
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was spending about $140 million or $150 million
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on their program.
Duration
14 seconds
Views
25
Timestamp in Movie
00:40:18
Uploaded
Jun 14, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Patagonia

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Movie Summary

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.
Since 1982, they've spent 15 billion. - Artifishal 00:04
Since 1982, they've spent 15 billion.
The General Accounting Office - Artifishal 00:10
The General Accounting Office
The big question is, - Artifishal 00:09
The big question is,
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...