Our oceans have been the victims of a giant Ponzi scheme, waged with Bernie Madoff-like callousness by the world's fisheries. — Daniel Pauly Copy Share Image
The crisis of the fisheries is similar to our economy. This is not one fishery failing, but the whole system. — Daniel Pauly Copy Share Image
We transform the world, but we don't remember it. We adjust our baseline to the new level, and we don't recall what was there. — Daniel Pauly Copy Share Image
If you think of having a family as being loved as a child, cared for - I did not experience that. — Daniel Pauly Copy Share Image
In the Java Sea in Indonesia, I have seen fishers going out in the morning, six of them going out and coming back with… — Daniel Pauly Copy Share Image
We suggest that in the next decades fisheries management will have to emphasize the rebuilding of fish populations embedded within functional food webs, within… — Daniel Pauly Copy Share Image
Small-scale fisheries should not be favoured over large-scale operations ebcause of romantic notions of rugged small operators battling both the elements and anonymous corporations.… — Daniel Pauly Copy Share Image
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 understand how… — Daniel Pauly Copy Share Image
There is no need for an end to fish, or to fishing for that matter. But there is an urgent need for governments to… — Daniel Pauly Copy Share Image
Tilapia have often been represented as the aquatic chicken, and it's perfectly justified. — Daniel Pauly Copy Share Image
An animal that is very abundant, before it gets extinct, it becomes rare. So you don't lose abundant animals. You always lose rare animals.… — Daniel Pauly Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I personally like the idea of shellfish aquaculture. These are animals that stay quiet, they stay where you put them, and they clean up… — Daniel Pauly Copy Share Image
![“Small-scale fisheries should not be favoured over large-scale operations ebcause of romantic notions of rugged small operators battling both the elements and anonymous corporations. [They ought to be supported] because of the scientific evidence available to confirm the common-sense inference that local fishers, if given privileged access, will tend to avoid trashing their local stocks, while foreign fishers do not have such motivation.” quote by Daniel Pauly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/12e/daniel-pauly-31821_access_small-scale-fisheries-should-not-be-favo_1297945.jpg)
