Shelton-Mason County Journal - Dedicated to the citizens of Mason County, Washington since 1886

It's a good time of year for documentaries, if your electricity and internet can handle pounding rain and deep-freeze snowfalls. Stuck on unplowed Harstine Island with plenty of hearty soups and greens, I searched for free, online docs to spice my studies.

The pun that titles 2019's "Artifishal" might be the only liberty the film takes. In the urgent question of salmon and trout habitat restoration, it's clear from the name which side the directors are on - but I appreciate the acknowledgment of differing perspectives.

"Artifishal" opens with a critical examination of salmon hatcheries in C...