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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.