Fly Fishing in the Anthropocene, Documentary 2017

A film by Peter Christensen and Rolf Nylinder. The Ozernaya River winds serpentinelike through a remote corner of Kamchatka in Far East Russia. In one of the most intact ecosystems left in the Northern Pacific, rainbow trout eat mice for breakfast, and the salmon run in the hundred of thousands. This bounty attracts two kinds of people; those who want to protect, and those who want to exploit. Rampant salmon poaching is big business on Kamchatka, and once the salmon are gone, en