Creatures Quote by Sylvia Earle

Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain.

— Peter Benchley

There is no sustainable future for fisheries as long as human populations continue to increase.

— Paul Watson

There is no place in nature for extinction.

— Lucretius

There is no humane slaughter requirement for wild fish caught and killed at sea, nor, in most places, for farmed fish.

— Peter Singer

Sharks have swum the oceans for over 400 million years, but we're threatening this critically important species for the purpose of making soup -…

— Ted Danson

We are already perilously close to killing off the top of the oceanic food chain - with catastrophic consequences that we can't begin to…

— Peter Benchley

We're not just polluting a river and killing a couple of top predator animals; we're eradicating the krill, the necessary algae. We're dismantling the…

— Anohni

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

There are plenty of fish in the sea, so don't settle for a shark.

— Kalvin Valentine

Some eco groups suggest that as many as 73 million sharks are killed globally every year. Hammerheads, blue sharks, mako sharks - they're disappearing,…

— Stephen Rodrick

In ten years [i.e., 1980] all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

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

— Sylvia Earle