Daniel Pauly Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

There are very few fishermen left today.

Commercial fishermen are the greediest, stupidest people on earth.

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.

Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.

Fish are a renewable resource, and one of the problems we've had is people feel obliged to catch the limit, then throw 'em in the garbage can.

The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly.

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

Fish banks are areas we set aside without fishing, reserves where we allow marine life to come back.

The concept of 'peak oil' has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. 'Peak fish' occurred around the end of the 1980s.

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.

I don't eat fish because there is no such thing as sustainable fishing in the world right now.

Maritime nations still respond automatically to the shibboleth of the "freedom of the seas." Professing to believe in the "inexhaustible resources of the oceans," they bring species after species of fish and whales closer to extinction.

There is an urgent need for regeneration of fisheries and fostering a sustainable fisheries programme. What I mean is, designing new fishing vessels and nets so that they do not disrupt the fish lifecycle by catching young ones and also do not destroy sea grass beds, which serve as habitats for dugongs.

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

I started writing 'Cod' at a time when people were first beginning to take an interest in the problem of fisheries because the Grand Banks had closed.

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

Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.

Marine protected areas, and particularly no-take zones, are very effective in allowing regeneration of fish stocks.