Ted Stevens said "We cannot treat the oceans as bottomless pits and harvest their fisheries at will or pollute them or plunder them." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordApril 22, 2004

We cannot treat the oceans as bottomless pits and harvest their fisheries at will or pollute them or plunder them.

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Ted Stevens

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Stevens warns against the over-exploitation of ocean resources.

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