It is not too late to turn things around.

All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class - which wasn't such a bad deal.

When some people look at a shrimp they think, "Hmm. Delicious." When I look at a shrimp I think, "You're a miracle, absolutely incredible. Your ancestors have gone back hundreds of millions of years." And to develop a thing as simple as a shrimp cocktail, you have to calculate the hundreds of millions of years that have preceded that moment where you're sitting there with your sauce and fork poised.

Health to the ocean means health for us.

We want to think of ourselves as truly special creatures that are unique in the universe and, well, we are. And we have that capacity to wonder, to question, and to see ourselves in the context of all of life that has preceded the present time, and all that will go off far into the future, one way or another.

We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.

We have found ways to capture, kill and market ocean wildlife on an unprecedented scale. It's an absolute catastrophe.