Daniel Pauly Quotes

#1. People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past.

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#2. If we don't manage this resource, we will be left with a diet of jellyfish and plankton stew.

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#3. Eating a tuna roll at a sushi restaurant should be considered no more environmentally benign than driving a Hummer or harpooning a manatee.

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

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#5. I personally like the idea of shellfish aquaculture. These are animals that stay quiet, they stay where you put them, and they clean up the water.

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#6. I'm developing a physiological theory of growth and oxygen requirement. If it's well-understood how fish require oxygen to grow, then we can understand how to deal with the impact of global warming.

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#7. While the climate crisis gathers front-page attention on a regular basis, people - even those who profess great environmental consciousness - continue to eat fish as if it were a sustainable practice.

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#8. If you think of having a family as being loved as a child, cared for - I did not experience that.

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#9. We transform the world, but we don't remember it. We adjust our baseline to the new level, and we don't recall what was there.

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#10. Tilapia have often been represented as the aquatic chicken, and it's perfectly justified.

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#11. We suggest that in the next decades fisheries management will have to emphasize the rebuilding of fish populations embedded within functional food webs, within large 'no-take' marine protected areas.

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#12. An animal that is very abundant, before it gets extinct, it becomes rare. So you don't lose abundant animals. You always lose rare animals. Therefore, they're not perceived as a big loss.

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

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