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The Ocean Does Not Need Admiration. It Needs Action

On World Oceans Day, we are often invited to admire the ocean: its beauty, its vastness, its mystery.

A fish processor on Mafia Island, Tanzania, offloading small pelagic fish from a fishing vessel onto the shore, preparing them for processing. Photo by Festo Lumwe.

On World Oceans Day, we are often invited to admire the ocean: its beauty, its vastness, its mystery. We speak of blue horizons, coral reefs, whales, waves and wonder. All of that is true. But it is not enough.

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