Statistics for The Empty Ocean preface by Richard Ellis

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But this is only the beginning of the end, as it were.	100%
While immersed in other projects and adventures, I kept bumping into stories of overfishing, overhunting, and other depredations that ocean life has been subjected to.	100%
As I read the voluminous literature and listened to the cries of despair, I realized I had found the subject for my next book, one that seemed as necessary as a fire alarm in a burning building.	0%
If we are not to repeat the history we did not understand, perhaps this warning will alert the fire department, and maybe - just maybe - we will be able to avoid greater calamities in the future.	0%
I have written about all sorts of things that live in the sea, from sperm whales to great white sharks, from giant squid to deep sea viperfish, but never before have I felt such a pressing need to get the information out.	0%
Poisoning, overfishing, and extinctions are on the increase around the world.	0%
Some of the situations are already hopeless: millions of dolphins, whales, seals, sea lions, and sea otters have been killed in the name of fashion or commerce.	0%
Through carelessness, greed, or just plain stupidity, we have squandered our precious marine heritage - in some cases beyond salvation.	0%
We will never again see a living great auk or Steller's sea cow; the barn door skate is history.	0%