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13 quotes by Daniel Pauly

Daniel Pauly is a French-born marine biologist, well known for his work in studying human impacts on global fisheries. He is a professor and the project leader of the Sea Around Us Project at the Fisheries Centre at the University of British Columbia. He also served as Director of the Fisheries Centre from November 2003 to October 2008.
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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... →

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There is no need for an end to fish, or to fishing for that matter. But there is an urgent need for governments to free themselves from the... →

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Our oceans have been the victims of a giant Ponzi scheme, waged with Bernie Madoff-like callousness by the world's fisheries.

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While the climate crisis gathers front-page attention on a regular basis, people - even those who profess great environmental consciousness -... →

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I'm developing a physiological theory of growth and oxygen requirement. If it's well-understood how fish require oxygen to grow, then we can... →

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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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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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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.... →

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

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

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