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The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as 'taboo.' If any fisherman was caught fishing in a taboo area, they would be killed. The Polynesians understand that the fish had to be given a chance to recover.
Paul Watson
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People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity.
Sylvia Earle
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Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.


Steven Wright
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If you want to maintain a sustainable supply of fish you have to farm the fish, rather than mine them. So putting your money into fishing fleets that are going to exacerbate the problem by over-fishing is not the way to preserve the underlying asset.
Maurice Strong
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One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
Bob Woodward
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People who can't kiss had everything given to them.


Kenny Chesney
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I have a theory that women are generally given space and appointed to jobs when the situation is tough. I've observed that in many instances. In times of crisis, women eventually are called upon to sort out the mess, face the difficult issues and be completely focused on restoring the situation.
Christine Lagarde
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I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.


Casey Affleck
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I'm the person who wouldn't send back my food even if I got steak when I'd ordered fish.


Anna Kendrick
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In 1956 we observed the electron antineutrino.


Frederick Reines
The worst thing in the world that can happen to you if you're an engineer that has given his life to something is for someone to rip it off and put their name to it.
Tim Cook
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The people who have recently come to this country to work and better their lives should be given the same opportunities that our parents, grandparents, and ancestors were given.
Jose Serrano
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There are people who can sit down and write a song about any given subject, and they can do it really, really well.
Glen Hansard
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The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.


Mao Zedong
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People eat the chicken, people eat the beef, they still say, 'Don't kill the fish.'


Nobu Matsuhisa
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He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase.
Michael Feinstein
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What I miss most about living in Alaska is the fishing.


Darby Stanchfield
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I get out in my boat and go fishing inshore and offshore.


Rickie Fowler
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Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.
Samuel E. Morison
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