24 Quotes by Daniel Pauly

We suggest that in the next decades fisheries management will have to emphasize the rebuilding of fish populations embedded within functional food webs, within large ‘no-take’ marine protected areas.

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. Therefore, they’re not perceived as a big loss.

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.

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

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

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.