Ted Danson will appear in a live interview on CNN.com on Thursday April 1. Send in your questions for him via this CNN article [link listed below] in which the actor and environmentalist writes for CNN on "his passion for the oceans and the need to protect them."
I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.
According to research by Dr. Daniel Pauly, one of world's leading fisheries scientists and an Oceana board member, global seafood catch peaked in the late 1980s and has been declining ever since — despite better and faster technology used to catch fish.
The simple fact is that we've eaten a lot of the fish. The U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization says that 80 percent of seafood species are overexploited, fully exploited or recovering from depletion.