We win key victories for the oceans that stop overfishing, reduce bycatch, limit pollution, preserve habitat and protect wildlife.
Was it related to oceans that are warmer?
"The national borders and oceans that surround us are insignificant these days," Lipe said.
That we might just have miles of weeds and nothing in the ocean, that we are at a point perhaps of no return".
"I don't think it's a coincidence that when shrimp trawlers appear in the ocean that we begin having stranded turtles," Muccio said.
He ends his poem "Carmel Point" with a prescription: We must uncentre our minds from ourselves; We must unhumanise our views a little, and become confident As the rock and ocean that we were made from.
We do swear, upon this lump of schist nosing out of the ocean, that we will never, ever acknowledge the fact that there are legions of strangers practically living in our homes.
"First, let me say that the ocean that we have found could keep things going for tens of millions of years, maybe 100 million years, but, of course, we don't know whether the ocean is being added to at present or is freezing up.
"We've been saying for a long time, a lot of marine mammals die in the ocean that we never will see".
