This film explores how different fishing gear types are tested to assess their impact on salmon survival, ensuring that future fisheries minimize harm to unintended species and support sustainable fishing practices.
Vanessa Castle explains how scientists track salmon populations using data collection methods like sonar, screw traps, and surveys to estimate migration survival rates, predict future returns, and help set sustainable fishing regulations.
This Film explores the journey of salmon from spawning in freshwater nests to migrating to the ocean, maturing over several years, and returning to their birthplace to reproduce.
This video discusses the tribal fishing moratorium following dam removal, highlighting its deep cultural and economic impacts, the gradual recovery of fish populations, and the tribe’s push to balance ecological restoration.
Ellie Kinley shares a personal and urgent account of how open-net fish farms in British Columbia threaten the survival of wild salmon and Indigenous lifeways in the Salish Sea.
This powerful short film traces the ongoing struggle of Native fishing nations to defend their treaty rights, from the Fish Wars of the 1960s to present-day protests, affirming fishing as a sovereign right and cultural lifeline.
Interwoven reflections from Indigenous leaders reveal the spiritual, ecological, and political relationships between salmon and people, urging collective responsibility to restore balance and ensure the salmon’s survival for future generations.
This short film explores the cultural and ecological importance of sockeye salmon and reef net fishing to the Lummi Nation, highlighting the deep ties between fishing traditions, family lineage, and Indigenous identity.
The video highlights the connection between the loss of traditions, like salmon fishing, and the rise of chemical dependency in Tribal communities, emphasizing the speaker's efforts to restore health and purpose through cultural and spiritual renewal.
