The Memory of Fish | movie | 2016 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

The Memory of Fish is a documentary portrait of one man, the wild salmon he loves, and his fight to free a river. | dG1fdlJ3TTNJZF81SDg

Transcript

00:00If you've never seen a river, a live river, you've really missed something.

00:09In a corner of the Pacific Northwest, on the edge of the Olympic Peninsula, is a frontier

00:14of giants.

00:16Giant mountains, giant trees, and miles and miles of rivers.

00:23Of all these rivers, it's the Elwha that Dick Gowen remembers.

00:29The Elwha was one of the greatest, and a river came to life only when the salmon were in.

00:35They were giants in the waters in those days.

00:40I still look at it like what it was, even though that's only in my mind's eye.

00:52As soon as they put the dams in, many things started to go right there.

00:59Dams and fish just can't work together at all.

01:04This effort to take the dams out, in the beginning, there weren't a lot of people that supported

01:10it.

01:11From decades of memories and data-filled notebooks, he incited a groundswell of voices against

01:16dam special interests.

01:18Tribal fishing rights were being violated.

01:20The upper dam's license had long expired.

01:23Pacific-run salmon were going extinct.

01:27Some people never think of everything as connected, they just don't recognize it, particularly

01:32when it means a sacrifice.

01:37I believe that when we turn this thing loose, it's going to instantly be a hundred years

01:44back.

01:45It will.