Top 13 Quotes by Daniel Pauly

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.

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

Our oceans have been the victims of a giant Ponzi scheme, waged with Bernie Madoff-like callousness by the world's fisheries.

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.

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

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.

I personally like the idea of shellfish aquaculture. These are animals that stay quiet, they stay where you put them, and they clean up the water.

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

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

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