Daniel Pauly Quotes

• We transform the world, but we don't remember it. We adjust our baseline to the new level, and we don't recall what was there.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, World

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• If we don't manage this resource, we will be left with a diet of jellyfish and plankton stew.

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  Ocean, Sea, Stew

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• An animal that is very abundant, before it gets extinct, it becomes rare. So you don't lose abundant animals. You always lose rare animals. Therefore, they're not perceived as a big loss.

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  Loss, Animal, Bigs

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• We suggest that in the next decades fisheries management will have to emphasize the rebuilding of fish populations embedded within functional food webs, within large 'no-take' marine protected areas.

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  Marina, Lagos, Mar

  Daniel Pauly (2010). “5 Easy Pieces: The Impact of Fisheries on Marine Ecosystems”, p.45, Island Press

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• The crisis of the fisheries is similar to our economy. This is not one fishery failing, but the whole system.

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  Failing, Economy, Crisis

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• Tilapia have often been represented as the aquatic chicken, and it's perfectly justified.

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  Justified, Chickens

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• Small-scale fisheries should not be favoured over large-scale operations ebcause of romantic notions of rugged small operators battling both the elements and anonymous corporations. [They ought to be supported] because of the scientific evidence available to confirm the common-sense inference that local fishers, if given privileged access, will tend to avoid trashing their local stocks, while foreign fishers do not have such motivation.

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  Motivation, Common Sense, Elements

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• If you think of having a family as being loved as a child, cared for - I did not experience that.

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  Children, Thinking, Ifs

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• People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past.

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  Past, People, Source

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• While the climate crisis gathers front-page attention on a regular basis, people - even those who profess great environmental consciousness - continue to eat fish as if it were a sustainable practice.

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  Practice, People, Environmental

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• I personally like the idea of shellfish aquaculture. These are animals that stay quiet, they stay where you put them, and they clean up the water.

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  Animal, Ideas, Water

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• Eating a tuna roll at a sushi restaurant should be considered no more environmentally benign than driving a Hummer or harpooning a manatee.

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  Tuna Fish, Sushi, Driving

  "The Perils Of Overfishing, Part 2". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2009.

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• In the Java Sea in Indonesia, I have seen fishers going out in the morning, six of them going out and coming back with five pounds of fish. That is the end point, a pound of fish per person per day to sell for rice. That's where fisheries go if you let it happen. That's where it stabilizes. These people cannot feed their families.

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  Morning, Sea, People

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