Spawning Grounds: Saving the Little Red Fish

Directed by: Nils Cowan Released: 2021 (educational) Year of Production: 2020 Running Time: 54 min Language: English Subtitle Options: English Closed Captions Subjects: Environmental Studies               Spawning Grounds is an educational documentary film that chronicles a critical season in the life of the Lake Sammamish kokanee, a unique but little-known species of landlocked salmon with immense cultural and ecological importance. The film follows key characters – a young educator with the Snoqualmie Tribe, a newcomer fish biologist, and a private landowner/activist – as they work together to save this fascinating species and its habitat amid unprecedented development pressure. We follow three main threads in bringing this large-scale story to life – the efforts being undertaken by local tribes to communicate the cultural and historical importance of the kokanee; the scientific work being done to better understand this unique fish species and to bring them back in ev