I believe the councils can actually manage the fish better than a centralized political figure.
What good are two members of the council--although their being native, what will it help you if you don't have the autho...
If I hadn't passed my bill, you wouldn't be sitting there. I remember that back in 1976.
More broadly, this sequence of events starkly illustrates why we believe fishery management plans should be developed in...
Actions are working--and need to support sustainable, healthy fisheries for all.
Forty-five years ago, Congressman Don Young teamed up with Congressman Gerry Studds to sketch out the framework for a ne...
The successful management framework created by the Magnuson Act is precisely why we have the confidence in investing hun...
The facts and data do not support this. In the North Pacific, bycatch has been on the agenda at nearly every meeting sin...
I empathize with subsistence users in Western Alaska, and while I can never fully know the pain and sense of loss that t...
It was the 'Alaska model' that guided the reauthorization processes.
I would like to focus my remarks today on one primary point, and that is that the regional stakeholder-driven framework ...
I want to acknowledge and express appreciation for the work of Congressman Young, who was not only instrumental in frami...
I have heard you mention the term 'climate change.' I advise everybody, yes, climate is changing.
I want to write it--whatever we do, we have to write it somehow that we get the job done for sustainable yield of the sp...
Not of water, either.
In conclusion, both bills...are well-intentioned.
On the other hand, we will hear that Mr. Huffman's reauthorization bill goes in the opposite direction.
My legislation, H.R. 59, would make a number of improvements to the MSA in order to ensure a proper balance between the ...
