I think that that's a good initiative going forward in the Arctic.
There's nothing more frustrating than knowing that you have the ability to address something, but you've got your polici...
How we work cooperatively, I think, is going to be critical as we see greater developments within these areas.
We need to wake up to the fact that it's happening around us and it's happening in waters that we share.
But the President of the International Association of Drilling Contractors says that they would like to see some form of...
Congressman Young, you understand the importance of heating fuel prices in Alaska.
What NMFS did is not the best science. What NMFS is an agenda.
You are being robbed right now by a Federal agency.
There is no science to back up what was done by NOAA/NMFS.
Our Congress with its oversight ability ought to look at the funding pots of these agencies.
Well, those restrictions were put in in 2000, and the pups are increasing significantly, yet you shut that area down. Wh...
I want all that information for the Committee.
But, again, that, by the way, if I can say so has been refuted. There is an increase of population, not a decrease in po...
the Agency cannot say with any certainty what is causing the population decline, but fishermen and again paying the pric...
We have spent $150 million in sea lion research since the Fiscal Year of, I believe it is 2001. And we still do not have...
The fact is there are probably more sea lions now in that area than there ever has been.
There is no shortage of sea lions, none. The pups are growing.
You have done something from the top down with no consultation, no understanding, and no science.
