Paul Watson Quotes

I would just like my children to be able to eat fish when they grow up. Now, I don't think there's anything controversial about that.

Sustainable fishing is a fraud. It's a marketing term that really means 'business as usual.'

Believe me, I did not come to London to cook farmed fish. All my fish are wild.

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

Marine scientists predict that by 2050 there will be no more large fish left in the ocean if we don't change our relationship with the sea.

The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.

Until fishing is properly regulated and contained, we should withdraw our consent. Save your plastic bags by all means, but if you really want to make a difference, stop eating fish.

The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species.

Sharks are in real trouble, and they need all the help they can get.

People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity.

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.

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.

No one understands the impacts of shifting fish stocks more than commercial and recreational fishermen in my district.

Cheap fish has usually been caught in careless ways.

Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.

Mackerel is sustainable and healthy.

European fisheries are a disaster. The American fisheries are well-kept.

I don't want to live in a world where I could say to my daughter, 'There used to be turtles that swam in the ocean.'

Several groups have information evaluating seafood sustainability. I wrote the first such guide, and seafood pocket-guides and detailed evaluations of different seafoods are available for download from the group I founded, Blue Ocean Institute.

There are so many issues in our oceans - like the near extinction of blue fin tuna - that should be taken more seriously worldwide.

80 percent of our global fish stocks are fully exploited, overly exploited or have collapsed. Two billion people rely on the oceans for their primary source of protein.

I think that the Japanese - and I do love Japanese cuisine and adore Japanese food culture - I think that they're going to plow through the entire world's fishing. They're going to eat everything anyways.

We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.

One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know.

I personally have stopped eating seafood.