Account Quote by Enric Sala

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

— Daniel Pauly

There is a lack of economic and political motivation to defend life in the oceans. The profit is made by companies exploiting the oceans…

— Paul Watson

The crazy thing is we live on an ocean planet - nobody gets that yet.

— Graham Hawkes

Overfishing, global warming and pollution are destroying the ocean.

— Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden

We are taking way more out of the ocean than the ocean can replenish.

— Sylvia Earle

Surfers are the canaries down the mine. Those of us who surf spend more time than anyone soaking in whatever the sea has become.…

— Tim Winton

The ocean is tired. It's throwing back at us what we're throwing in there.

— Frank Lautenberg

The ocean is the lifeblood of our world.

— Aaron Peirsol

The oceans are a way of life. We fish; we sail; we have a robust marine economy.

— Sheldon Whitehouse

What we have now - a world without [marine] reserves - is like a debit account where we withdraw all the time and we…

— Enric Sala

The oceans themselves are threatened and life itself, therefore, and the planet is threatened because of it.

— John F. Kerry

There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet - as if the ocean somehow…

— Sylvia Earle