What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.
SYLVIA EARLEIt’s akin to using a bulldozer to catch a butterfly, destroying a whole ecosystem for the sake of a few pounds of protein. We wouldn’t do this on land, so why do it in the oceans?
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And there’s no question that it is a factor, but it’s preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.
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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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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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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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We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.
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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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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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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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Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home.
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The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly stressed Gulf of Mexico will permanently alter the nature of the area.
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There are some who would like to see the oil rigs removed right down to the ground once their job is done, and there are others, and I count myself among them, who think that once they are in place they begin to be adopted by life in the ocean as a habitat.
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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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By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing.
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My mother was known as the ‘bird lady’ of the neighborhood.
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Is a slow but accelerating impact with consequences that will greatly overshadow all the oil spills put together. The warming trend that is CO2-related will overshadow all the oil spills that have ever occurred put together.
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