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“There is simply no issue more important. Conservation is the preservation of human life on earth, and that, above all else, is worth fighting for.”

Revolution Global Warming Conservation Sharks Fisheries Overfishing Sharkwater

Book:Sharkwater

Source: Sharkwater

“Humans seem to have an innate drive to master other creatures.”

Humanity Nature Fishing Seafood Wildlife Conservation Wildlife Protection Overfishing

Book:Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food

Source: Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food

“The Ocean Health Index is like the thermometer of the ocean. It will allow us to take the temperature to know what is going on at the global level, trying to integrate different impacts, including overfishing, invasive species, coastal development, and climate change.”

Knows Trying Different Levels Development Ocean Impact Climate Species Climate Change Including Temperature Integrating Coastal Thermometers Overfishing

Author:Enric Sala

“The biggest danger we face is overfishing. We literally could fish out our oceans, some scientists believe, in the next 40, 50, 60 years. We are fishing out the top of the food chain, and it's pretty crucial because about 200 million people depend on fish and fishing for their livelihood, and about a billion people, mostly in poorer countries, depend on fish for their protein. So this is a big problem. Good news is, it's fixable.”

“The ocean is like a checking account where everybody withdraws but nobody makes a deposit. This is what's happening because of overfishing.”

Ocean Happenings Accounts Withdrawal Deposits Withdrawing Checking Accounts Overfishing

Author:Enric Sala

“Fish farming, even with conventional techniques, changes fish within a few generations from an animal like a wild buffalo or a wildebeest to the equivalent of a domestic cow.”

Change Animal Generations Fishes Technique Cows Conventional Farming Salmon Buffalo Overfishing

Book:The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat

Source: The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat

“If we were to lose our fish that we appreciate so much by overfishing; or if we were to lose some of our favorite beaches to overbuilding and pollution, then how would we feel? It's become a case of not knowing what you've got until it's gone.”

Ifs Feels Loses Cases Gone Knowing Appreciate Fishes Beach Pollution Not Knowing Overfishing

Author:Aaron Peirsol

“Today, our incentives aren't set up well - you can make a lot of money burning fossil fuels, digging up wetlands, pumping fossil water out of aquifers that will take 10,000 years to recharge, overfishing species in international waters that are close to collapse, and so on.”

Years Wells Today Water Species International Burning Fuel Collapse Lots Of Money Fossils Incentives Digging Fossil Fuel Burning Fossil Fuels Wetlands Aquifers Overfishing

Author:Ramez Naam

“Most of the damage suffered by the ocean up until now has been caused by local insults - overfishing, pollution, and destruction of habitats. If we tackle these problems now, we buy ourselves time to work on climate change.”

Ifs Has Beens Problem Ocean Destruction Climate Climate Change Locals Damage Insult Pollution Habitat Overfishing

Author:Nancy Knowlton

“Overfishing is an obvious threat to our capacity to feed ourselves.”

Capacity Threat Obvious Overfishing

Author:Tim Winton

“If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.”

Ifs Whole Science Creation Ocean Creating Bottom Chains Collapse Food Chain Overfishing

Author:Carl Safina

“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.”

Years Ends Millions Century Creatures Percent 20th Century Sharks Whales Turtles Tuna Overfishing

Author:Sylvia Earle