Nicolas Hulot

22 October 2000

“The ocean is the memory of  Life on Earth and of the mystery of the common origins we share with all living things. It is a source of beauty, of pleasure… but also of solutions for Life on Earth.
As Gilles Boeuf suggested recently, it is now time to learn from nature: “Instead of devastating everything while wanting to reinvent the wheel, let’s just see how nature works, and preserve it as a reservoir of solutions and ideas.”
Fisheries have long been “raiding” through deep-sea fishing. This must be consigned to history. At sea and on land, it is time for France and the European Union to take the lead.”