Anyone else on that?
The goal here is actually to try to be unifying and try to find answers to questions that we all care about.
So let's be prepared and let's not make these issues divisive, I guess I would say, too.
That's very helpful. And hopefully all of you know we had a bill that was a bill of mine that passed the Senate recently...
I'm assuming when NOAA funds it, they want to use it.
Traditional ecological knowledge is not respected.
We are strong advocates for reduced--in fact, just this year we have reduced the bycatch levels that are allowed in the ...
I think we all hope so, right?
So you would say that is a critical gap that we should prioritize funding for?
We will work with you if you need more resources or authorities to get to the bottom of the question.
So strong runs somewhere, but weak king runs pretty much all over the state, which concerns everybody.
Any thoughts from the scientists on that question?
I do want to emphasize again for everybody here that literally at the witness table right now we have the top Federal of...
we need to know what more we can do at the Federal level, in particular, to help you
OK. Let me ask kind of the question that I think most people are interested in...
I do think that this panel demonstrates that we don't have all the answers, but I do think it's reassuring to see we hav...
Putting it in historical perspective, was it ocean conditions in the 1960s and 1970s where the runs were weak?
For example, in the Bering Sea, the vast majority of the Chinook salmon taken as bycatch are Alaska-bound fish.
