Sustainable fishing is a fraud. It's a marketing term that really means 'business as usual.'
Interpretation
Sustainable fishing is often misleading and serves as a marketing strategy rather than a real solution.
In this quote, Paul Watson argues that the term 'sustainable fishing' is a deceptive marketing phrase that does not truly address the environmental issues related to fishing practices. By labeling abusive practices as sustainable, the industry continues to exploit ocean resources without making significant changes to promote ecological balance.
In practice
In an environmental conference discussing the impact of fishing on marine ecosystems.
Seafood is simply a socially acceptable form of bush meat. We condemn Africans for hunting monkeys and mammalian and bird species from the jungle yet the developed world thinks nothing of hauling in magnificent wild creatures like swordfish, tuna, halibut, shark, and salmon for our meals. The fact is that the global slaughter of marine wildlife is simply the largest massacre of wildlife on the planet.
I have never suffered under any delusion that saving the whales in the Antarctic sanctuary would be easy, but the one thing I am certain of is that I and my passionate crew of international volunteers will never quit defending life in the seas from poachers, no matter what consequences we must endure to do so.
Unless we stop the degradation of our oceans, marine ecological systems will begin collapsing and when enough of them fail, the oceans will die. And if the oceans die, then civilization collapses and we all die
Nobody can legitimately claim to be a marine ecologist and conservationist while continuing to eat fish. It is the ultimate form of hypocrisy.
To slaughter grand and beautiful creatures like these tuskers, whether terrestrial or marine, solely to obtain a few teeth indicates that we have not evolved very much since the days our forebears lived in caves and saught to prove their superiority by adorning themselves with teeth and claws
People are beginning to realize that we need to live in accordance with the law of ecology, the law of finite resources, and if we don't, we're going to go extinct.
Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together like poets making fresh metaphors.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
I have always kept ducks, even as a child, and the colours of their plumage, in particular the dark green and snow white, seemed to me the only possible answer to the questions that are on my mind.
O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
My heart is in a world of water and crystal, My clothes are damp in this time of spring rains.
The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.
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