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.

The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.

Give the ocean a break. Give yourself a break.

The oceans deserve our respect and care, but you have to know something before you can care about it.

The Exxon Valdez spill triggered a swift and strong response that changed policies about shipping, about double-hulled construction. A number of laws came into place.

My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.

I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.