1.
What
are
the
central
points
of
the
piece,
and
how
do
they
relate
to
what
we’re
engaging
in
this
class?
2.
How
do
themes
and
ideas
from
this
piece
relate
to
things
you’re
learning
in
and
out
of
the
classroom
at
UC
Berkeley?
3.
What
questions
do
you
have
about
the
material,
or
what
would
you
like
to
know
more
about?
Film:
“The
Lost
Fish:
The
Struggle
to
Save
Pacific
Lamprey”
This
film
is
about
the
prehistoric
Pacific
Lamprey.
The
Pacific
Lamprey
is
an
eel-like
fish
that
traverse
rivers
and
are
filter
feeders.
Their
defining
characteristic
would
be
a
circular
mouth
that
suctions
onto
surfaces.
What
was
once
abundant
throughout
the
Columbia
river
basin,
human
fish
poisoning
has
made
it
such
that
they
are
now
only
found
in
a
small
section
of
the
river.
In
the
60s
and
70s,
fish
poisoning
led
to
a
significant
decrease
in
Lamprey
found
in
the
Umatilla
River.
This
affects
the
Umatilla
tribe
significantly,
as
the
eels
play
an
important
role
in
tribal
culture,
being
involved
in
ceremonies
and
playing
the
role
of
their
first
sources
of
food.
As
a
result,
the
Umatilla
Tribe
and
the
Nez
Perce
Tribal
Hatchery
have
started
a
conservation
effort
to
bring
the
lamprey
numbers
back
up
to
what
they
were
before.
They
take
lamprey’s
from
the
mid-lower
parts
of
the
river
and
populate
them
in
their
hatcheries.
Then,
they
release
them
back
into
the
streams
with
diminished
lamprey
numbers.
The
themes
in
this
film
connect
back
to
what
we
are
learning
in
school
and
our
societies
because
animal
extinctions
have
been
a
long
standing
problem,
especially
in
the
last
couple
of
decades
where
human
impacts
have
affected
various
species
across
the
globe.
This
topic
also
reminds
me
of
the
environmental
justice
theme
that
I
learned
in
one
of
my
energy
resources
classes
because
we
also
studied
the
impacts
of
human
activities
on
our
environments.
Our
pollution
has
led
to
deforestation,
oil
spills,
and
air
contamination,
all
of
which
has
affected
animal
species
in
these
locations.
This
is
exactly
what
happened
to
the
lamprey
and
caused
the
near
extinction
of
the
species
in
the
Umatilla
river.
I
would
love
to
learn
more
about
how
lamprey
bred
in
the
hatcheries
do
when
they
are
released
back
into
the
streams.
I
have
heard
that
animals
bred
in
human
made
enclosures
tend
to
do
poorly
when
put
back
out
in
the
wild
because
they
have
lived
in
different
environments
their
whole
lives.
They
are
given food
and
are
not
forced
to
hunt
on
their
own.
Therefore,
I
wonder
if
the
lamprey
being
released
back
into
the
wild
are
surviving
as
long
as
lamprey
born
in
the
rivers.
