Salmon film seeks crowdfunding
Called ‘Atlantic Salmon - Lost at Sea!', it has been produced by Deirdre Brennan who has been making this film for 6 years in the rivers of North America, Europe, Iceland, Greenland, as well as in the Atlantic Ocean.
It tells the story of the collapse in abundance of wild Atlantic salmon over the last thirty years. The film records the urgent quest to try to solve the mystery of the salmon's life at sea and to answer the question: 'why are salmon dying in greater numbers than ever before in their ocean environment and not returning to their native rivers?'.
The film takes the viewer on a journey through the mysterious world of the king of fish, and highlights some of the important research, conservation and restoration work of AST and others in all the wild Atlantic salmon countries. It describers the ground-breaking research programme to track salmon on their epic migration to try to find out why and where they are dying at sea.
Filming is now complete and it is ready to edit. In order to raise the last 10% of the budget needed, Deirdre has embarked on a Kickstarter campaign to bring in funds to finish the project.
Kickstarter is a crowd-funding platform and in its 10 years has raised over $1.6 billion for creative projects, including many documentary films. All projects are vetted in advance. It is an all or nothing principle - if the goal is not reached, then no money changes hands. The campaign will run until September 14th and has currently raised $25,984 of the $50,000 target.
For further details see:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1121132260/atlantic-salmon-lost-at-sea
