bow line

"It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming."

John Steinbeck

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."

Henry David Thoreau

"Since 1970, the world's fishing fleet has expanded twice as fast as world catches. As a result, excess fishing capacity has reached alarming proportions (for instance, the fishing fleet in China is now around six times the size it was in 1979). Today, there are over three-and-a-half million fishing vessels operating in the world's oceans, all engaged in a desperate competition over dwindling supplies of fish. Little wonder then that the aggregate global fleet of over a million industrial and semi-industrial vessels has been operating at an annual loss of some $50-billion each year -- a collosal loss that is being compensated by government subsidies to vessel owners, and all at taxpayers' expense."

Greenpeace