The ocean's shifting baseline

Name: The ocean's shifting baseline
Uploaded: 2012-02-28T17:45:21Z
Duration: 8 min 45 s
Description: The ocean has degraded within our lifetimes, as shown in the decreasing average size of fish. And yet, as Daniel Pauly shows us onstage at Mission Blue, each time the baseline drops, we call it the new "normal." At what point do we stop readjusting downward?

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Daniel Pauly |

Mission Blue Voyage

• April 2010

The ocean has degraded within our lifetimes, as shown in the decreasing average size of fish. And yet, as Daniel Pauly shows us onstage at Mission Blue, each time the baseline drops, we call it the new "normal." At what point do we stop readjusting downward?