Well, I concur completely. I think we need to lay it on the line, and I hope you'll put that request to OMB and to the Administration.
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it's my hope that we're going to have a significant buyback program coming out, perhaps even from this hearing.
So what do you think we should do? What's the recommendation? How do you reconcile this difference with NEPA?
Let me interject here, Senator, if I can just for a moment--procedural, that's all.
I think that the way out for the non-Alaskan fisheries is probably some combination of buybacks to reduce capacity.