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There’s no place that we know about that can support life as we know it, not even our sister planet, Mars, where we might set up housekeeping someday, but at great effort and trouble we have to recreate the things we take for granted here.

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I have heard endlessly that fish are so resilient that there is no way that you could exterminate a species. We are learning otherwise.
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The fragility, and even the degradation of our planet’s blue heart.
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We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
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If you think the ocean isn’t important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.
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I personally have stopped eating seafood.
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The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
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Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life.
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Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica.
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I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind.
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