Dan Sullivan

These routes can save shippers weeks in travel and are thousands of nautical miles shorter when compared to using the Suez Canal or Panama Canals.

Yes, I would agree with Captain Page in terms of making the most of next generation technologies.

President Putin, though, has also mentioned that he views the Arctic as the next Suez Canal and the Russians intend to control it, which I do not think is in America's interest.

The retreat of Arctic sea ice, better ice-breaking technology and global demand for Arctic resources has led to an increase in human activity.

I do think it doesn't get enough coverage here in the press, but it's also gotten pretty strong bipartisan support.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. Thereupon, the Senate, at 7:23 p.m., adjourned until Thursday, November 15, 2018, at 10 a.m…

Directing additional Federal funds to implementing State conservation plans now will save us from needing emergency funds later, when it may be too late to act.

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 that for the Saltonstall-Kennedy funds makes it much less NOAA controlled and much more kind of our stakeholders in…

Well, I have one bit of homework to do on this issue.

I'm assuming when NOAA funds it, they want to use it.

Traditional ecological knowledge is not respected.

I think we have seen examples.

That's a lot harder to do, though, I take it?

Anyone else on that?

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...

We are strong advocates for reduced--in fact, just this year we have reduced the bycatch levels that are allowed in the Bering Sea based on low abundance.

I think we all hope so, right?

So you would say that is a critical gap that we should prioritize funding for?

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 have some of the smartest people in the state and in the country working on this.

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.

Putting it in historical perspective, was it ocean conditions in the 1960s and 1970s where the runs were weak?