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I’m not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about the large-scale industrial fishing that engages in destructive practices like trawling and longlining.

Sylvia Earle

What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.
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Against Fish Once Use Used War Weapon
The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
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Before Century Commerce End Finish Fish Middle One Predict Twenty
I’m friends with James Cameron. We’ve spent time together over the years because he is a diver and explorer and in his heart of hearts a biologist. We run into each other at scientific conferences.
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Biologist Diver Explore Friend Heart Occur People Person Spent Together Year
Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they’ve spent time in and around the ocean, and they’ve personally seen the beauty.
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Advocate Conservation Driver Ocean Scuba Some Spent Strongest Surface Time
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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On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look closely and sit there as I do for a while and just wait, all sorts of creatures show themselves, with little heads popping out of the sand. It is a metropolis.
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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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Care Dependent Do Live Need Ocean Respect Take Them They
My mother was known as the ‘bird lady’ of the neighborhood.
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Burd Known Lady Mother Neighborhood
As if the ocean somehow doesn’t matter or is so big, so vast that it can take care of itself, or that there is nothing that we could possibly do that we could harm the ocean.
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Big Care Harm Itself Matter Nothing Ocean Possible Somehow Vast
It’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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Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home.
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Every Go Home Into Ocean Sip Time
I’ve always said, ‘Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.’
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Always Compatible Men Said Top Underwater Women
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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Attack Enemy Enlist Everybody Heaven Pick Pitchfork Sake See
When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed.
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No water, no life. No blue, no green.
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It’s mainly the high-end luxury market now that drives much of the fishing in the sea. It’s not feeding the starving millions. It’s feeding a luxury market.
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Drive Feel Fish High Luxury Mainly Market Million Much Sea Starve

I’m not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about the large-scale industrial fishing that engages in destructive practices like trawling and longlining.

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I’m not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about the large-scale industrial fishing that engages in destructive practices like trawling and longlining.

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