Occupation: Biologist Birth: May 2, 1946
If we don't manage this resource, we will be left with a diet of jellyfish and plankton 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..
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..
Small-scale fisheries should not be favoured over large-scale operations ebcause of romantic notions of rugged small operators battling both the elem….
We suggest that in the next decades fisheries management will have to emphasize the rebuilding of fish populations embedded within functional food we….
Eating a tuna roll at a sushi restaurant should be considered no more environmentally benign than driving a Hummer or harpooning a manatee..
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….
Tilapia have often been represented as the aquatic chicken, and it's perfectly justified..
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 t….
The crisis of the fisheries is similar to our economy. This is not one fishery failing, but the whole system..
While the climate crisis gathers front-page attention on a regular basis, people - even those who profess great environmental consciousness - continu….
If you think of having a family as being loved as a child, cared for - I did not experience that..