Daniel Pauly famous quotes

03-28-2025

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.
-- Daniel Pauly

#Motivation #Inspiration #World
Tilapia have often been represented as the aquatic chicken, and it's perfectly justified.
-- Daniel Pauly

#Justified #Chickens
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.
-- Daniel Pauly

#Practice #People #Environmental
People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past.
-- Daniel Pauly

#Past #People #Source
Eating a tuna roll at a sushi restaurant should be considered no more environmentally benign than driving a Hummer or harpooning a manatee.
-- Daniel Pauly

#Tuna #Sushi #Driving
The crisis of the fisheries is similar to our economy. This is not one fishery failing, but the whole system.
-- Daniel Pauly

#Failing #Economy #Crisis
If you think of having a family as being loved as a child, cared for - I did not experience that.
-- Daniel Pauly

#Children #Thinking #Being Loved
If we don't manage this resource, we will be left with a diet of jellyfish and plankton stew.
-- Daniel Pauly

#Ocean #Resources #Stew
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.
-- Daniel Pauly

#Animal #Ideas #Water
In the Java Sea in Indonesia, I have seen fishers going out in the morning, six of them going out and coming back with five pounds of fish. That is the end point, a pound of fish per person per day to sell for rice. That's where fisheries go if you let it happen. That's where it stabilizes. These people cannot feed their families.
-- Daniel Pauly

#Morning #Sea #People
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.
-- Daniel Pauly

#Loss #Animal #Bigs
Small-scale fisheries should not be favoured over large-scale operations ebcause of romantic notions of rugged small operators battling both the elements and anonymous corporations. [They ought to be supported] because of the scientific evidence available to confirm the common-sense inference that local fishers, if given privileged access, will tend to avoid trashing their local stocks, while foreign fishers do not have such motivation.
-- Daniel Pauly

#Motivation #Common Sense #Elements
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.
-- Daniel Pauly

#Marine #Rivers #Lakes

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