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Wild salmon represent something that is really important
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Artifishal

Wild salmon represent somethingthat is really important to us as human beings

Wild salmon represent something
that is really important to us as human beings

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Wild salmon represent something that is really important
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to us as human beings.
Duration
6 seconds
Views
24
Timestamp in Movie
00:12:36
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.
You have Native American cultures here - Artifishal 00:07
You have Native American cultures here
You have, you know, families like mine - Artifishal 00:09
You have, you know, families like mine
And then I think because this is the age of human impact, - Artifishal 00:12
And then I think because this is the age of human impact,
All of my earliest memories revolve around fish in some way or another. - Artifishal 00:05
All of my earliest memories revolve around fish in some way ...
As a young adult, I built my whole calendar year - Artifishal 00:08
As a young adult, I built my whole calendar year
And that really became my obsession. - Artifishal 00:04
And that really became my obsession.
I thought of hatcheries as something that actually kind of helped us as fishermen, - Artifishal 00:11
I thought of hatcheries as something that actually kind of h...
I don't think I ever had one second where I thought about conservation at all. - Artifishal 00:06
I don't think I ever had one second where I thought abo...
I thought about getting enough money for gas and pizza - Artifishal 00:06
I thought about getting enough money for gas and pizza
What I didn't realize was that we were really at the tail end - Artifishal 00:09
What I didn't realize was that we were really at the ta...
In late 2000, they announced that the 2001 season would not happen, - Artifishal 00:17
In late 2000, they announced that the 2001 season would not ...
I mean, I had built this whole life around this fishery and now it's gone. - Artifishal 00:05
I mean, I had built this whole life around this fishery and ...
I started doing some research, started reading, - Artifishal 00:05
I started doing some research, started reading,
Talked to biologists, talked to fish managers, - Artifishal 00:11
Talked to biologists, talked to fish managers,
This was sort of kind of the impacts on salmon and steelhead people talked about. - Artifishal 00:05
This was sort of kind of the impacts on salmon and steelhead...
And so I used that as a guideline and I started thinking about the Skykomish, - Artifishal 00:10
And so I used that as a guideline and I started thinking abo...
The harvest, as far as I could tell, had remained relatively constant, - Artifishal 00:06
The harvest, as far as I could tell, had remained relatively...
And so the one constant that I found - Artifishal 00:12
And so the one constant that I found
I think that was what started kind of my focus on learning more - Artifishal 00:11
I think that was what started kind of my focus on learning m...
Not just fishing opportunities but of wild fish populations, period. - Artifishal 00:05
Not just fishing opportunities but of wild fish populations,...