Daniel Pauly

People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past.

— Daniel Pauly

We transform the world, but we don't remember it. We adjust our baseline to the new level, and we don't recall what…

— Daniel Pauly

I personally like the idea of shellfish aquaculture. These are animals that stay quiet, they stay where you put them, and they…

— Daniel Pauly

Our oceans have been the victims of a giant Ponzi scheme, waged with Bernie Madoff-like callousness by the world's fisheries.

— Daniel Pauly

Eating a tuna roll at a sushi restaurant should be considered no more environmentally benign than driving a Hummer or harpooning a…

— Daniel Pauly

If we don't manage this resource, we will be left with a diet of jellyfish and plankton stew.

— Daniel Pauly

Tilapia have often been represented as the aquatic chicken, and it's perfectly justified.

— Daniel Pauly

If you think of having a family as being loved as a child, cared for - I did not experience that.

— Daniel Pauly

While the climate crisis gathers front-page attention on a regular basis, people - even those who profess great environmental consciousness - continue…

— Daniel Pauly

We suggest that in the next decades fisheries management will have to emphasize the rebuilding of fish populations embedded within functional food…

— Daniel Pauly

There is no need for an end to fish, or to fishing for that matter. But there is an urgent need for…

— Daniel Pauly

In the Java Sea in Indonesia, I have seen fishers going out in the morning, six of them going out and coming…

— Daniel Pauly

I'm developing a physiological theory of growth and oxygen requirement. If it's well-understood how fish require oxygen to grow, then we can…

— Daniel Pauly

An animal that is very abundant, before it gets extinct, it becomes rare. So you don't lose abundant animals. You always lose…

— Daniel Pauly

Small-scale fisheries should not be favoured over large-scale operations ebcause of romantic notions of rugged small operators battling both the elements and…

— Daniel Pauly

The crisis of the fisheries is similar to our economy. This is not one fishery failing, but the whole system.

— Daniel Pauly