Filmmaker Explores Possible Extinction of Early Run Pacific Chinook Salmon
A collaborative effort is underway to save the genetically distinct spring Chinook salmon, a fish of critical importance to humans, Southern Resident killer whales and many species that rely on salmon in their life cycles.
“Will policy catch up with science before it’s too late?,” asks Shane Anderson, the award-winning filmmaker from Swiftwater Films in Olympia, Wash., whose latest documentary, “The Lost Salmon,” chronicles the challenges of and potential recovery prospects for the iconic Chinook, and the new genetic discovery that could aid in their recovery.
“As the first salmon to arrive home in spring, the spring run of Chinook have one of the most fascinating migrations in the animal kingdom,” the documentary states at one point. “They are a species of desire for an entire ecosyst...