Ted Stevens: “I ask you to join me in ensuring these projects move ahead as expeditiously as possible.”

The NALEMP annual appropriation was first drafted in 1993 by Senator Ted Stevens and Senator Daniel Inouye.

They are not numbers. They were people, living, breathing, caring, loving people. And they're not anymore. And there is no rational explanation as to why not.

Thanks to the foresight of Senator Ted Stevens and his congressional colleagues in establishing the North Pacific Research Board in 1997.

The whole purpose of the Act is to protect our fisheries and have a conservation ethic to be the major goal.