Clear Quote by Dan Barber

Since I began exploring the ocean in the 1950s, 90 percent of the big fish have been stripped away. Tuna, sharks, swordfish, cod, halibut,…

— Sylvia Earle

If we keep on destroying fish, there won't be any left. If the oceans die, we all die. It's as simple as that.

— Sylvie Guillem

“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

By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large…

— Sylvia Earle

I'm not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about the large-scale…

— Sylvia Earle

“In fact, fishing is one of the world’s most wasteful and destructive industries. Every year, more than seven million tons of so-called by-catch (perhaps…

— Hope Bohanec

“In the November 2006 issue of Science, a report by an international team of scientists studying a vast amount of data gathered between 1950…

— Peter Heller

Fishing is taking a huge toll on the planet's ecosystem. We are emptying the oceans, seas, lakes, and rivers as we fish them dry.

— Sharon Gannon

To the naked eye, our oceans are beautiful. But scientists tell us that all of the world's fisheries will collapse by 2048, unless we…

— Ted Danson

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

Fishing is taking a huge toll on the planet's ecosystem.

— Sharon Gannon

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