Quotes About Overfishing

22 million tonnes of such unwanted fish are dumped back in the sea each year, mostly in the form of corpses.

The World Wildlife Fund estimated in 1994 that the number of sharks killed each year was between 40 million and 70 million. As

We kill 100 million [sharks] yearly. By 2050 we will have filled the sea with more plastics than fish.

They want this resource for themselves. They're blaming us for the low salmon runs. But we're not the ones overfishing. We've always caught what we needed. Some years are better than others, but we respect the cycle. We did not create this mess. You see over there? They are allowed to catch more than us because the government said they could. And further out, in the ocean, they can catch even more.

In the annals of bad ideas, this is one for the hall of fame: trawling giant nets through water thousands of feet deep to catch thumb-size fish and wads of gelatinous tissue that nobody wants to eat, but that we could grind up to feed the farmed fish we're now being forced to breed because of our previous indiscriminate trawling with giant nets.

Pollution from garbage, sewage, and agricultural fertilizer runoff, combined with overfishing and spills from offshore oil drilling, may kill off edible sea life completely by 2048.

Give a man a fish — he will eat for a day. Teach a man how to start a commercial fishing business — he will deplete the seas, overfish the oceans, wipe out entire ecosystems, and devastate the planet.

We know about man's impact on the ocean in terms of fishing and overfishing, but we don't really know much about what's happening underneath the water. And in fact, shipping has a role to play here, because shipping noise has contributed to damaging the acoustic habitats of ocean creatures.

Man knows next to nothing about the ocean. And because of that, he doesn't respect it, and he is ruining it with overfishing, pollution, global warming, toxic algal blooms.

We associate the North Atlantic with cod. The motto of Newfoundland used to be 'In cod we trust.' It was a joke, but it was essentially true. But there is no cod anymore. And that's extraordinary. It's all because of either greed or politics - Canadian politics.

The ocean is like a checking account where everybody withdraws but nobody makes a deposit. This is what's happening because of overfishing.

We have already exterminated 90% of the fish. The fish population is 90% smaller than it was before we began to wage war on the oceans. (p. 209)