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Artifishal

You have, you know,families like mine that fish for salmonand eat salmon and think about...

You have, you know,
families like mine that fish for salmon
and eat salmon and think about salmon

Full Transcript

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You have, you know, families like mine
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that fish for salmon and eat salmon
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and think about salmon.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
26
Timestamp in Movie
00:12:49
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.
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,...
When the dams came down on the Elwha, - Artifishal 00:05
When the dams came down on the Elwha,
We spent more than $320 million to recover wild salmon. - Artifishal 00:05
We spent more than $320 million to recover wild salmon.