Quotes About Fisheries

#1. I know myself, from my own background, the E.U. depresses employment and destroys jobs. My father had a business destroyed by the common fisheries policy.

Michael Gove

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

Daniel Pauly

#3. My father had a fishing business in Aberdeen destroyed by the European Union and the Common Fisheries Policy, the European Union.

Michael Gove

#4. A healthy ocean is vital to our economy and well-being. We need clean and healthy oceans to sustain tourism and fisheries.

Scott Peters

#5. 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.

Daniel Pauly

#6. The common fisheries policy unfortunately led to the devastation of fishing in Scotland. My dad had to close his business. As a result something that he been built up by by grandfather and maintained by my dad disappeared. So my dad suffered.

Michael Gove

#7. The production of natural resources in agriculture, forestry and fisheries, stable natural hydrological cycles, fertile soils, a balanced climate and numerous other vital ecosystem services can only be permanently secured through the protection and sustainable use of biological diversity.

Sigmar Gabriel

#8. A fish does not campaign against fisheries-it only tries to slip through the mesh.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#9. Of all the ships that have been devoted to biological explorations of the sea, none has surpassed the endeavors conducted on board the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries steamer Albatross, during her 39 years of service from 1882 to 1921.

Paul Bartsch

#10. The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did have abundant resources. But now we are gradually exhausting our fisheries, our topsoil, our water. On top of that, we're coming to the end of world resources.

Jared Diamond

#11. If Indonesia improves governance of the fisheries sector and invests in large-scale maritime transport, it can double fish production by 2019.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

#12. Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.

Sigmar Gabriel

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

Daniel Pauly

#14. On my reservation, we had one of the most abundant fisheries in the world and hundreds of thousands of acres of wild rice beds. We've lost a lot of it, but there's still natural wealth that could support our communities.

Winona LaDuke

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

Paul Watson

#16. European fisheries are a disaster. The American fisheries are well-kept.

Roger Daltrey

#17. The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly.

Bjorn Lomborg

#18. We heard of White & Green Revolution but now we need a Blue Revolution & harness the potential in fisheries sector.

Narendra Modi

#19. Aquatic invasive species are destroying the environment, damaging fisheries, and costing American taxpayers billions of dollars annually.

John M. McHugh

#20. In terms of protecting ourselves, the main issues are around how do we protect our borders [from illegal migrants and livestock and plant diseases], how do we protect our fisheries?

Helen Clark

#21. To the naked eye, our oceans are beautiful. But scientists tell us that all of the world's fisheries will collapse by 2048, unless we change how we manage them. Help protect our oceans so the next generation can also enjoy their bounty.

Ted Danson

#22. The emphasis of my government is to take advantage from the Chinese experience in the fields of agriculture, fisheries, energy, infrastructure, development, health and high efficiency irrigation.

Asif Ali Zardari

#23. Reality the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never was any problem.

C.S. Lewis

#24. Where there is mystery, it is generally supposed there must be evil.

George Gordon Byron

#25. The thought of never crossing your path again is to enormous to bare, so for now I'll make dreams in my heart and remind myself to go and sit & remember them every once in a while.

Nikki Rowe

#26. There is simply no issue more important. Conservation is the preservation of human life on earth, and that, above all else, is worth fighting for.

Rob Stewart

#27. We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the past and find out what we have experienced and what meaning it has.

Milan Kundera

#28. When the teachings of men conflict with the Word of God, it would be wise to go with God. -Henry M. Morris Ph.D.

Amy Case