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What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.

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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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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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Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.
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We have taken the manatees out of the areas in the Caribbean and really elsewhere in the world, and this disruption to the system makes such systems vulnerable to changes as they come by, whether it’s in terms of disease or terms or global warming for that matter.
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Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
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If we could magically transport ourselves back to the young Earth, when it was only a billion years old or two billion years old or three billion years old or four billion years old.
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We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
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They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.
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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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You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don’t see sharks.
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They are so beautiful, a pair is in the Museum of Modern Art. The set I have are ruby red. I call them my ruby flippers.
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What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.
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When I first ventured into the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea appeared to be a blue infinity too large, too wild to be harmed by anything that people could do.
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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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I love music of all kinds, but there’s no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too.
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The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
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Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean, even without major spills.
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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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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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There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet.
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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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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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Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.
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The Exxon Valdez spill triggered a swift and strong response that changed policies about shipping, about double-hulled construction. A number of laws came into place.
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I personally have stopped eating seafood.
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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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