Speakers Daniel Pauly: Fisheries biologist
Daniel Pauly is the principal investigator at the Sea Around Us Project, which studies the impact of the world's fisheries on marine ecosystems. The software he's helped develop is used around the world to model and track the ocean.
Why you should listen to him:
Daniel Pauly heads the Sea Around Us Project, based at the Fisheries Centre, at the University of British Columbia. Pauly has been a leader in conceptualizing and codeveloping software that’s used by ocean experts throughout the world. At the Sea Around Us and in his other work, he’s developing new ways to view complex ocean data.
Pauly’s work includes the Ecopath ecological/ecosystem modeling software suite; the massive FishBase, the online encyclopaedia of fishes; and, increasingly, the quantitative results of the Sea Around Us Project.
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Quotes by Daniel Pauly
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“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.”
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“An animal that is very abundant, before it gets extinct it becomes rare. So you don't lose abundant animals. You always lose rare animals. Therefore, they're not perceived as a big loss.”
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“People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past.”
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Daniel Pauly: The ocean's shifting baseline
- 09:02 Posted: Feb 2012
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