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There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon.

Commercial fishermen are the greediest, stupidest people on earth.

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

Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

Every fish in the ocean is in danger.

I come from a family of fishermen. Fishing is very important to us. We don't hunt. We're not gun folk.

When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me.

When the fishbowl gets too small, it's time to pack up and leave and jump into the lake or ocean.