Artifishal

Artifishal

Artifishal

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Artifishal

2019

1h 15m

7.3(6 votes)

Documentary

Overview

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.

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Patagonia

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1 member

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Jerry Brown

Self (archive footage)

Jerry Brown

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