Ted Stevens: “You are confident that you can live with this policy in terms of this war?”

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.

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

Joe Walker is not a number.

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