What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.
SYLVIA EARLEAll through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class – which wasn’t such a bad deal.
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All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class – which wasn’t such a bad deal.
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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea.
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The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
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As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything.
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Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.
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I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don’t see in the daytime.
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No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.
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We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
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Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home.
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The most important thing for people to know about the governance of the Arctic is that we have a chance now to act to maintain the integrity of the system or to lose it.
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Every fish fertilizes the water in a way that generates the plankton that ultimately leads back into the food chain, but also yields oxygen, grabs carbon – it’s a part of what makes the ocean function and what makes the planet function.
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When I write a scientific treatise, I might reach 100 people. When the ‘National Geographic’ covers a project, it communicates about plants and fish and underwater technology to more than 10 million people.
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Large areas of the Gulf have escaped being scraped by trawls, crushed by more than 40,000 miles of pipelines, or displaced by one of 50,000 oil and gas wells drilled since the middle of the 20th century. Some places have been deliberately protected.
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Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life.
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