Ted Stevens: “Our goal is to assist those countries to get on a democratic path.”

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

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.

It is the wrong mine for the wrong place.

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