Daniel Pauly Quotes

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• If we don't manage this resource, we will be left with a diet of jellyfish and plankton stew.
• 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…
• 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.
• 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. Therefore,…
• In the Java Sea in Indonesia, I have seen fishers going out in the morning, six of them going out and coming back with five…
• I personally like the idea of shellfish aquaculture. These are animals that stay quiet, they stay where you put them, and they clean up the…
• Tilapia have often been represented as the aquatic chicken, and it's perfectly justified.
• If you think of having a family as being loved as a child, cared for - I did not experience that.
• The crisis of the fisheries is similar to our economy. This is not one fishery failing, but the whole system.
• Eating a tuna roll at a sushi restaurant should be considered no more environmentally benign than driving a Hummer or harpooning a manatee.
• People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past.
• While the climate crisis gathers front-page attention on a regular basis, people - even those who profess great environmental consciousness - continue to eat fish…
• There is no need for an end to fish, or to fishing for that matter. But there is an urgent need for governments to free…

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