A report by the US-based research and education organization World Policy Institute stated that expanded fishing practices has created a perilous situation for ocean life. A 2003 study showed that 90 percent of the large fish in the oceans had disappeared in the previous 50 years, and the World Policy Institute is now calling for the monies spent on subsidies to the fishing industries to instead be used to create large marine reserves.
Our heartfelt appreciation World Policy Institute, for your caring dedication to protecting our oceans. May humanity heed the call to be better guardians of the oceans and all life.
In a videoconference with our Association members in Germany, Supreme Master Ching Hai explained how all beings contribute to the delicate balance of our biosphere.
Videoconference with Supreme Master Ching Hai with Hamburg Center, Germany – July 18, 2008
Supreme Master Ching Hai : Because Fishing eating is also very depleting to planetary ecosystem. They have proven that overfishing of sardines has resulted in many dead zones. Because they are there for some reason. They are there for maybe oxidizing the ocean, give life to some other kind of species or cleaning the environment. Whatever the species that God has left on the planet, they have work to do. The species has work to
do. Just like humans, we have work to do. Animals, they have work to do. Even little fish like sardines, they have work to do. It's just many humans are ignorant. They think it is a little fish, they're helpless anyway; they're useless. No, they're not useless. They think they're useless so they fish them up and eat them. But they're very, very useful to our ecosystem and to the health of the planet, and, consequently, to the health of humans and all beings on it.
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