# The ocean's shifting baseline

- Institution: TED
- Department: Mission Blue Voyage
- Speaker: Daniel Pauly
- Year: 2010
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Earth and environment
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_pauly_the_ocean_s_shifting_baseline)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

The ocean has degraded within our lifetimes, as shown in the decreasing average size of fish. And yet, as Daniel Pauly shows us onstage at Mission Blue, each time the baseline drops, we call it the new "normal." At what point do we stop readjusting downward?

## Lectures

1. [The ocean's shifting baseline](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/daniel_pauly_the_ocean_s_shifting_baseline/1794403c5636), 9 min (TED's player)