Summary

In the shadow of the 1992 cod collapse, Newfoundlanders face a pivotal choice: embrace industrial salmon farming or fight for a conservation-based future. Through powerful local voices, this film follows the communities standing up to protect their waters, culture, and way of life before it’s too late.

Newfoundlanders have always been a resilient people, and, for many, moving past the economic and socio-cultural trauma of the 1992 cod moratorium presents two options. Do they continue down the path of industrial fisheries, this time in the form of salmon farming, or do they forge a new path founded on a conservation economy? Told through the vivid and unmistakably local voices, we see individuals and communities standing up to the industrial scale salmon farming in an effort to protect the landscapes and way of life they love.