24 Quotes by Daniel Pauly

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 understand how to deal with the impact of global warming.

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

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