The Lost Salmon

Am Bradan Caillte  

Stiùiriche: Shane Anderson, USA 58 mion. Cànan: Beurla, FFEIG Ìre: 12  

De bhradan a’ Chuan Sith gu leir, tha luach ann an sgaoth earraich an chinook thar chàich. A’ chiad bradan a thilleas gach bliadhna, bha urram aig am measg treubhan tùsanach Ameireagaidh a Tuath agus aig teis-meadhan lìonradh nàdar agus bith eòlas an Iar-Thuath.  B’ e a chinook bu bhitheanta de ghnè a’ bhradan anns Na Stàitean Aonaichte. Tha cuid den gnè sònraichte sin air a chall mar-thà. Na tha air fhàgail am bagairt sìoladh às, ri linn àitichean àraich air an truailleadh, gun dòighean dìon le lèirsinn agus atharrachadh na gnàth thìde a’ toirt crìonadh orra.       

Chaidh neach film Am Bradan Caillte, Shane Anderson air turas dà bhliadhna tàrsainn Washington, Oregon, California agus Idaho a’ clàradh a’ bhradan “earraich” fhiathaich, an eachdraidh, na tha a’ toirt crìonadh orra an-diugh, agus an ceangal ri na daoine agus na h-àitichean ris a’ Chuan Sèimh san Iar Thuath.  Air an t-slige, tha Anderson ag innse mu eòlas ùr saidheans a tha a’ toirt fiosrachadh  dòchasach a thaobh ginn a’ bhradan a shàbhaileas sliochd an àrd chinneadh an Chinook.     

 

The Lost Salmon

Dir: Shane Anderson, USA, 58 Min, Language: English, HIFF Classification:12.

Of all the Pacific Salmon, the spring run of chinook is the most revered. As the first salmon to return home each year, they have always been a sacrament for the oldest civilizations in North America and the keystone of Northwest ecosystems. Once occupying the most extensive range of any salmon species in the United States, many genetically unique populations of spring chinook have already been lost. Those that remain face a looming risk of extinction as habitat loss, short-sighted fisheries management, and climate change continue to take a toll on their numbers. 

In The Lost Salmon, filmmaker Shane Anderson set out on a two-year journey across Washington, Oregon, California, and Idaho to document some of the last wild "springers", the historical and ongoing causes of their declining numbers, and their profound relationship to the people and places of the Pacific Northwest. Along the way, Anderson tells the story of a recent scientific breakthrough that provides crucial new insights into salmon genetics and offers an important path forward to help save the king of salmon before they are lost forever.