Having held a meeting on the coast of my district recently, a meeting with fishermen, they expressed a lot of concern ab...
I have said all along that I believe the Act is fundamentally sound.
The fishermen who are directly impacted have requested flexibility.
If all those 'nots' that the Chairman talked about are sincere, then we need to make a lot of revisions to this bill to ...
Instead, we are considering legislation that would undo 20 years of fisheries reforms fought for by members like Gerry S...
The Minority can invite additional witnesses to discuss a number of provisions in the bill.
So, your concern is that if we have data that shows, particularly where they want to put it, is a prime fishing area, we...
So you are basically putting the blame back on the Councils for slow implementation.
I view the provision in the draft discussion bill as saying that whenever you issue a fishery management rule, which is ...
I would like to see a more adroit bureaucracy.
We need to require that forage fish be managed, because they are so important in marine ecosystems.
And all we have right now is we hold fishing communities accountable for the lack of productivity that might be happenin...
I will convey that to the Chairman for you. I think the Republican staff might not remember to do that.
I recently, just this week, met with some trawlers from Oregon, Washington, and we were discussing the need that Mr. Gra...
I have been focused a lot more on transportation over the last few years when I took over ranking.
I think, from our standpoint, from representing commercial fishermen, we are very wary of any attempt to try and change ...
I would hope that, if that is the case, you would respond back to the committee in a very timely manner.
if we say let's move and mandate that we move ahead with electronic monitoring, but say it can't be used for enforcement...
