it is time for the road blocks to come down. It's time for NOAA to begin to work with our fishermen.
we were partners. We were a team. And he was passionate about fishing, about the oceans.
I want to thank you for taking our request seriously.
If we're going to have any industries left of any kind, we need to be successful in that Super Committee work.
Thank you for taking the time to read this statement by the Associated Fisheries of Maine on the subject of the current state of the Massach...
I have to say that I'm very proud--when we were still allowed to earmark, I will confess that SMAST was very high on my list of earmarks, an...
I know we can do a better job, because as a matter of common sense, we can find the sweet spot between preservation and protection and the r...
we have to incorporate common sense here.
There are only two regulatory agencies I can think of that have a genuinely sort of hostile attitude toward the people under their control.
We need good science to fight what we think is not good science, and that means adequate funding for SMAST.
I think the fishermen who are here, the ones who are struggling and fighting in that small business category... isn't automatically a natura...
there are hundreds of millions of dollars a year, to summarize, that would be available to the economy, but they aren't because of fishery m...
Most Federal agencies are somewhat advocates of the people in their name.
I mean, that's why we now control over 50-plus percent of the market of this country, because sustainability--
We will do everything in our power to move to that as fast as we conceivably can.
We don't have adequate science. We can't do this on a two and three-year basis.
So, in effect, what we've really got to do is we've got to look at the functionality of the Council itself.
Well, how do we make it work is the question everybody's asking.
