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• El océano es como una cuenta corriente en la que todo el mundo retira dinero pero nadie deposita. Esto es lo que está ocurriendo debido a la sobrepesca.

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  Ocean, Deposits, Overfishing

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• I was studying the impacts of fishing on ocean life, while the places that I loved so much continued to decline: less and smaller fish, less corals, and more microbes. I found myself writing the obituary of nature with increasing precision. Unsatisfied and frustrated, I felt like a doctor telling the patient how she is going to die, with excruciating detail. If I were that patient, I would have fired myself and looked for a doctor who would look for a solution.

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  Ocean, Writing, Fishing

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• What we have now - a world without [marine] reserves - is like a debit account where we withdraw all the time and we never make any deposit. Reserves are like savings accounts.

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  Ocean, Marine, Saving

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• When I was six, all I dreamt about was becoming a diver on Jacques Cousteau's boat, the famous Calypso.

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  Jacques Cousteau, Calypso, Becoming

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• Most of the reefs [around Christmas Island] are dead, most of the corals are dead, overgrown by algae, and most of the fish are smaller than the pencils we use to count them.

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  Ocean, Islands, Algae

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• In the Mediterranean of my childhood, there were no large groupers, sharks, or whales. All I saw was seaweed and a few fish, smaller than my little diving mask. All the large animals were gone, simply because we had eaten them.

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  Animal, Sharks, Whales

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• What better way to learn about life in the ocean--and how we are changing it--than through stories of blind zombie worms, immortal jellyfish, and unicorns of the sea? The Extreme Life of the Sea is an insightful book that inspires awe and wonder about our ocean, and brilliantly shows us the immense possibilities of life on Earth.

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  Ocean, Book, Sea

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• When I was a kid, Jacques Cousteau was my hero and the person who inspired me to become an underwater explorer. I have many other people who inspired me after him, but he is still my all-time hero.

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  Hero, Kids, People

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• The seas need their own Kyoto Protocol.

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  Kyoto, Sea, Needs

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• El Índice de Salud Oceánica es como el termómetro del océano. Nos permitirá tomar la temperatura para saber qué está pasando a nivel mundial, tratando de integrar distintos impactos, entre ellos la sobrepesca, las especies invasoras, el desarrollo costero y el cambio climático.

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  Ocean, Impact, Trying

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• I dream of diving in two places where I have not been yet. One is Antarctica, because of its crystal clear waters and amazing fauna, in addition to the ice cathedrals. The other is the Arctic, where I'd like to see the northernmost kelp forests.

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  Dream, Ice, Two

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