“If you ask the fish whether they’d rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn’t be surprised if they’d vote for another blowout.”

Carl Safina, a world leading marine ecologist and author of books such as “A Sea In Flames” and “Song for the Blue Ocean”, referring to the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexicon one year ago. Carl Safina is quoted by Mark Bittman on a NY Times blog.

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