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“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

Sustainable fishing is a fraud. It's a marketing term that really means 'business as usual.'

— Paul Watson

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 crisis of the fisheries is similar to our economy. This is not one fishery failing, but the whole system.

— Daniel Pauly

Clean air and clean ocean, you can't translate that into money if you look at the cost to health, cost to fishery industry.

— Severn Cullis-Suzuki

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

80 percent of our global fish stocks are fully exploited, overly exploited or have collapsed. Two billion people rely on the oceans for their…

— 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

Seventy percent of the fish we eat is black market, fished in violation of international laws. Our ignorance makes us unwilling partners in crime.…

— Loretta Napoleoni

“By 2030, says the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, fish farming will dominate fish supplies. Given how wrong the FAO has been in the…

— Charles Clover

We've invested millions of dollars in tourism. Now they're trying to industrialize and pollute the ocean. It doesn't make any sense to me at…

— John Scott

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