With his wild beard and bug-black sunglasses, he emerges in One More Time With Feeling as some kind of rock'n'roll warlock, though his broad Australian accent and humour are as down to earth as fish and chips.
Just as dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago when a meteor struck the earth, many fish and other creatures of an earlier era -- about 380 million years ago -- may have been similarly killed off.
God or nature may have given us "dominion" over "all the earth," including fish, fowl, cattle, and "every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth," but surely neither God nor nature have given us license to extinguish all of the above.
Now it is known for hundreds of bustling, crowded retail outlet stores, and as the 157-year-old touchstone to the most easy-going sport on earth, fly-fishing.
Is a danger to be trusting one another, One will seldom want to do what other wishes; But unless someday somebody trust somebody There'll be nothing left on earth excepting fishes!" Let's not sleep with the fishes it's too Sicilian.
They might call the sea "earth of the fish".
In these arguments, evolution is treated as an abstract subject that deals with the age of the earth or how fish first flopped onto land.
The Pacific Ocean is also a storehouse of biodiversity for the planet, including some of the largest mammals on earth, commercially important fish stocks and coral reef ecosystems already threatened by climate change.
Whole continents have been subjugated, forests felled, watercourses diverted, the earth gutted, seas fished to extinction; only human nature, remains triumphant, invincible.
Other manufactured goods for export include ferrosilicon, an alloying agent for steel production; diatomite, an industrial filtration agent produced from diatomaceous earth with geothermal steam; fish-processing equipment; fishing gear; and prosthetic devices.
To wit: the largest migration, one of the most feared migrations, one of the most curious migrations, one of the longest migrations in the Americas, the longest migration in the Americas below the Arctic, the longest elephant migration, the largest toothed predator alive today, the largest fish on earth, one of the richest panoramas of wildlife on earth.
