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Posted: March 18, 2009 - 2:49 pm

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Got salmon? NMFS photo

If you’re looking for something to get your hooks into this weekend in Anchorage, you might check out a new film making its local premiere, “Icy Killers: Secrets of Alaska’s Salmon Shark.”

It’ll show at 6 p.m. Saturday at the Wild Berry Theater, 5225 Juneau St.

Evergreen Films Inc., a Los Angeles production company, says the one-hour documentary was shot in the Prince William Sound area.

The film also will air on the National Geographic Channel, Evergreen says.

The Highliner is personally fascinated with salmon sharks and probably can’t resist Saturday’s showing.

So, fishermen, just how prevalent are these sharks in your experience in Alaska waters? Do they compete with you for salmon? Foul up your gear?

Here’s a toothy blurb on the film:

About “Icy Killers”
Once a year, one of nature’s great spectacles takes place on the northernmost coast of the Gulf of Alaska. It is a predestined collision of two massive migrations – a David and Goliath event – when thousands of ravenous salmon sharks gather to attack millions of Pacific salmon. The salmon are desperately trying to reach their spawning grounds in Prince William Sound. In the end, the salmon run on an urgency born of their need to reproduce while the sharks run on hunger. This one-hour spectacular travels with the salmon shark and the salmon in the most revealing portrait ever of this rarely filmed, little-known shark: Alaska’s Icy Killer.