Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.
SYLVIA EARLEPeople still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity.
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The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
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I would love to slip into the skin of a fish and know what it’s like to be one. They have senses that I can only dream about.
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My mother was known as the ‘bird lady’ of the neighborhood.
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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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Take away the ice and snow, increase the temperature by even a little, and the realm that makes their lives possible literally melts away.
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For heaven’s sake, when you see the enemy attacking, you pick up the pitchfork, and you enlist everybody you see.
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People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity.
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Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.
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We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.
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I personally have stopped eating seafood.
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A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.
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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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We wouldn’t be able to survive. We would have a hard time surviving if we were transported to the time when dinosaurs were around.
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Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater.
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I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.
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