Daniel Pauly Quotes

Daniel Pauly — French Scientist born on May 02, 1946,

Daniel Pauly is a French-born marine biologist, well known for his work in studying human impacts on global fisheries. He is a professor and the project leader of the Sea Around Us Project at the UBC Fisheries Centre at the University of British Columbia. He also served as Director of the UBC Fisheries Centre from November 2003 to October 2008... (wikipedia)

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

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

There is no need for an end to fish, or to fishing for that matter. But there is an urgent need for governments to free themselves from the fishing-industrial complex and its Ponzi scheme, to stop subsidizing the fishing-industrial complex and awarding it fishing rights, when it should in fact pay for the privilege to fish.

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.

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 Quotes

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