Amount Quote by 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

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 industrial way we fish for seafood is harming the marine habitats that all ocean life depends upon. Indiscriminate commercial fishing practices that include…

— Ted Danson

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

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

— Sharon Gannon

We have found ways to capture, kill and market ocean wildlife on an unprecedented scale. It's an absolute catastrophe.

— Sylvia Earle

The idea of the industrial fishing affects everyone. Those factory ships play this game of hit and run with the international fishing limits, and…

— Robin Williams

“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 have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.

— Sylvia Earle

Fishing is not a benign activity; it is hunting in the water.

— Sharon Gannon

Seafood is simply a socially acceptable form of bush meat. We condemn Africans for hunting monkeys and mammalian and bird species from the jungle…

— Paul Watson

Large factory trawlers indiscriminately scrape and haul up everything from the ocean floor, along with everyone unfortunate enough to get caught in the nets.…

— Sharon Gannon