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The ocean is like a checking account where everybody withdraws but nobody makes a deposit. This is what's happening because of overfishing.

We need to do a better job of keeping oceans healthy.

There's a lot to be said about what's happening to our ocean, big companies polluting it with their oil and all the raw garbage that's being spilled in there.

Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat of the United States of America, to be honest with you. That is why seeing the habitat destroyed is so short-sighted by us.

Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean.

Our oceans are facing innumerable threats - from overfishing and pollution to ocean acidification and invasive species - yet we haven't had a blueprint for its use and development, incredible as that seems.

We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.

The crazy thing is we live on an ocean planet - nobody gets that yet.

There are so many issues in our oceans - like the near extinction of blue fin tuna - that should be taken more seriously worldwide.

80 percent of our global fish stocks are fully exploited, overly exploited or have collapsed. Two billion people rely on the oceans for their primary source of protein.