Billion Quote by Barton Seaver

One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if…

— Yann Arthus-Bertrand

The availability of fish is a food security issue. We need to stop our first world fleets taking fish from the mouths of the…

— Charles Clover

“The planet may never recover from the environmental devastation wrought by commercial fishing. It seems that our oceans, once thought to hold an endless…

— Hope Bohanec

We are literally eating the oceans alive and there are simply not enough fish to continue to feed an ever expanding population of humanity.

— Paul Watson

If you want to maintain a sustainable supply of fish you have to farm the fish, rather than mine them. So putting your money…

— Maurice Strong

For the past 50 years, we've been fishing the seas like we clear-cut forests. It's hard to overstate the destruction. Ninety percent of large…

— Dan Barber

The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've…

— Bjorn Lomborg

Today's fishing industry supplies land farms with fish as well. Over fifty percent of the fish caught is fed to livestock on factory farms…

— Sharon Gannon

“We have already exterminated 90% of the fish. The fish population is 90% smaller than it was before we began to wage war on…

— Paul Watson

Up to 80 percent of the fish that we catch spend at least part of their lives in estuaries.

— Jim Gerlach

There are so many issues in our oceans - like the near extinction of blue fin tuna - that should be taken more seriously…

— Heston Blumenthal

“It would be wonderful if all the salmon we eat could be wild. But as one marine ecologist said to me recently, to continue…

— Paul Greenberg