"Marine reserves are addictive and can affect your health. People who have them do not want to give them up. They start clamoring for more. The side effects are serious. People infected with the idea become interested, enthusiastic, active, knowledgeable, healthy and impatient with silly arguments and no-hopers. They start talking about "10% of everything" and "We want them now". In the end they become determined, convincing and unstoppable. This process has already started."

Bill Ballantine
Marine Reserves for New Zealand, 1991, University of Auckland: Leigh Marine Laboratory Bulletin No. 25