Marine Ecosystems Quotes

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

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.

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.

I'm concerned about the ocean and the environment. And I love whales.

Everybody's got some fascination with undersea life, don't you think?

We know shark's fin is a huge problem. In California now, you can't buy it or sell it.

If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches.

Barack Obama now says he is open to offshore oil drilling. So, apparently, when he promised change, he was talking about his mind.

'Changes in Latitudes' began when I was looking at a photograph of a sea turtle swimming underwater. I had such a strong feeling for the beauty of this ancient creature, at home in the sea. On the spot, I wanted to swim with that turtle. I began to imagine a character who would do just that.

People love the ocean. People are always asking me why I don't study the ocean, because, after all, I live in Hawaii. I tell them that it's because the ocean is a lonely, empty place.

Nature did not put whales on this earth to splash kids while stuck in a pen.

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As a kid, I was going to be a marine biologist or an actor. When I became successful as an actor, I said, 'Well, maybe I can lend a voice to this with an equal passion.' You realize how lucky we are and how destructive we've been and what little regard we have for the natural world.

The Japanese people have a strong connection with nature and the ocean and a huge respect for them.

I think that most people would associate big schools of fish with healthy coral reefs. At Kingman, the predators keep the herd thin, so there aren't a lot of big fish schools.

I've been diving for about 30 years, and I can honestly say that I've had some amazing encounters with sharks, squids, and other whales. But the encounter with the right whales in the Auckland Islands was probably the best thing I've ever done. It was just that amazing.

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

Commercial fishermen are the greediest, stupidest people on earth.

Well managed and healthy oceans are vital to the survival of small island states, such as the Maldives. This important book shows how scientists and governments can better protect the world's oceans.

When I was younger, I wanted to be a marine biologist, among other things.

There are ecosystems like coral reefs [at risk] through ocean acidification. Those are valuable things that we should protect.

If we don't preserve the oceans from nitrate runoff and plastic and chemicals, and if we don't preserve it from acidification, and if we don't preserve it from grotesque overfishing - too much money chasing too few fish - we're going to have the most massive ecosystem on the planet in peril.

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

I don't like grouper fish. Well, they're okay. They hang around star fish. Because they're grouper fish.

We must plant the sea and herd its animals ... using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about -- farming replacing hunting.