Ted Stevens: “This is very disturbing. This person is now blind, partially.”

In 2003, Alaska's own Senator Ted Stevens singled out Alaska Tribes for exceptionally harsh financial restrictions.

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.

Joe Walker is not a number.