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You're not going to be able to protect them from dams
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Artifishal

You're not going to be ableto protect them from dams, because progress is going todemand...

You're not going to be able
to protect them from dams, because progress is going to
demand that dams be built." And so he said, "What you need
to do is take up artificial
propagation." The people that originally were
the fish-and-wildlife scientists
weren't

Full Transcript

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You're not going to be able to protect them from dams,
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because progress is going to demand that dams be built."
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And so he said, "What you need to do is take up artificial propagation."
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The people that originally were the fish-and-wildlife scientists weren't.
Duration
21 seconds
Views
23
Timestamp in Movie
00:08:27
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 since the 1800s, our fish-and-wildlife agencies - Artifishal 00:09
And since the 1800s, our fish-and-wildlife agencies
Just like a farm, you raise them, you put them out, you harvest them. - Artifishal 00:04
Just like a farm, you raise them, you put them out, you harv...
That's the basis for fish-and-wildlife management in the U.S. - Artifishal 00:04
That's the basis for fish-and-wildlife management in th...
The fact is salmon must spend part of their life out in the wild. - Artifishal 00:06
The fact is salmon must spend part of their life out in the ...
And it wasn't until, in the seventies, that we really started evaluating - Artifishal 00:09
And it wasn't until, in the seventies, that we really s...
The use of hatcheries was a promise that you could have salmon - Artifishal 00:10
The use of hatcheries was a promise that you could have salm...
Put that next to the fact - Artifishal 00:18
Put that next to the fact
We've been relying on those same runs of fish, - Artifishal 00:08
We've been relying on those same runs of fish,
When your health is their health, right, you're married in that way, - Artifishal 00:08
When your health is their health, right, you're married...
To have that relationship with a single species is real special. - Artifishal 00:06
To have that relationship with a single species is real spec...
You think about the Sioux people and the buffalo back in the day - Artifishal 00:06
You think about the Sioux people and the buffalo back in the...
But that relationship, unfortunately, was severed. - Artifishal 00:05
But that relationship, unfortunately, was severed.
If we let these runs go, then they are gone, - Artifishal 00:15
If we let these runs go, then they are gone,
The average person, when they see a salmon, - Artifishal 00:07
The average person, when they see a salmon,
And it's perhaps at the end of their fishing line, - Artifishal 00:11
And it's perhaps at the end of their fishing line,
Salmon, I think, have the most complicated, - Artifishal 00:11
Salmon, I think, have the most complicated,
They start life by hatching from eggs in a stream. - Artifishal 00:06
They start life by hatching from eggs in a stream.
You're distilling the richness of the ocean - Artifishal 00:09
You're distilling the richness of the ocean
And then that enlivened distillation of the ocean propels itself - Artifishal 00:10
And then that enlivened distillation of the ocean propels it...
Sometimes they go well over a thousand miles inland, - Artifishal 00:13
Sometimes they go well over a thousand miles inland,