Paul Watson Quotes
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Bluefin tuna is sort of like the cheetah of the ocean. It's the fastest fish. It's a warm-blooded fish. But it's got a $100,000 price tag on its head.
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The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics.
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Spermaceti oil is valued for its high resistance to heat, and thus it is used in machinery where there is excessive heat.
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The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are prey to the sharks have had their behavior, their speed, their camouflage, their defense mechanisms molded by the shark.
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In December 2012, the U.S. 9th district court granted a temporary injunction to the Japanese whalers that ordered the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society U.S.A. to not approach within 500 yards of the whaling vessels.
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The seal hunt has made me ashamed to be a Canadian.
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The biggest predator of fish like cod is other fish - and seals keep fish like that in check.
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Sometimes going to jail is just the price you have to pay for social reform or social change.
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I feel that we have a responsibility to try to do everything we can to protect species, and the best way to do that is to uphold international conservation law.
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Sea Shepherd does not condone, nor do we practise, violence.
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Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite.
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I have never suffered under any delusion that saving the whales in the Antarctic sanctuary would be easy, but the one thing I am certain of is that I and my passionate crew of international volunteers will never quit defending life in the seas from poachers, no matter what consequences we must endure to do so.
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I'm never horrible to anybody. My problem, and you can ask any of my friends, is that I'm too nice to everybody.
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Most people can't see the connection between their own lives and the oceans.
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I used to swim with these beavers in a beaver pond when I was 10. I went back when I was 11 and found there were no more beavers. I found that trappers had taken them all, so I became quite angry, and that winter I began to walk the trap lines and free animals from the traps and destroy the traps.
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I have an unexplainable belief that I will never cause harm or be harmed while at sea. Because of this, I feel secure at sea: I feel secure in the ice, I feel secure in the storms, and I feel secure in confrontations.
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There are very few fishermen left today.
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Protesting is fundamentally submissive.
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The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.
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Whales are killed today to supply the limited demand for whale meat or to be used in pet foods or as fodder for fur-bearing animals used in the fur trade.
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Every fish in the ocean is in danger.
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I always say, 'I'm not a pirate, I just play one on TV.'
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There are many who condemn my crew and I for taking the law into our own hands and for taking on the barons of corporate profit.
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Actually, I never really look at myself as a real radical activist; I am more the conservative. I mean, the conservatives are trying to conserve; the radicals are destroying the planet.