Dan Sullivan

Any thoughts from the scientists on that question?

For example, in the Bering Sea, the vast majority of the Chinook salmon taken as bycatch are Alaska-bound fish.

I do want to emphasize again for everybody here that literally at the witness table right now we have the top Federal official on these issues in the country and the top state official.

So you think that that's set up to kind of skew the funding to the Lower 48 states?

Why do you think that's happening?

So you think it's going pretty well?

It's frustrating, and I feel it's deceiving in the public service efforts to say, yes, we'll take your money so that you can fund our research projects, but we don't really want to work with you.

But do you think you are getting a full amount? Do you need more of that?

I know you are looking at it, but I'm wondering where.

Great. Thank you, Danielle.

I believe--you know, and we are not the only river that has an Inter-Tribal Fish Commission.

Remember, I asked you to prioritize.

So you mentioned on the state side the genetic material data from the feds is one of the key data points.

So tools, right now you think you have adequate management tools? Again, and this is state and Federal.

It's always good to have more science and more information.

This is an official U.S. Senate Subcommittee hearing, the Subcommittee on Fisheries, NOAA and the Coast Guard.

That is going to happen, I can guarantee you, or it won't pass.

We, Alaska, are the super power of seafood for America.

Using the best science available is an essential tenet for fisheries management and is necessary for maintaining healthy and sustainable stocks for generations to come.

I really want to thank our witnesses, which I think everybody is going to see, we have a world class, world class set of witnesses.

The Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation will now come to order.

I want to begin by apologizing. I was just up giving my remarks for the keynote address, and it went a little long.

We want to help you certainly fill the vacancies, right, because I think that's really critical.

I remember speaking with Ted Stevens years ago about the whole premise that the Alaska Fisheries Science Center is not in Alaska, and I know that troubled him.

Well, as the Chairman of the Committee that oversees that, we will be very interested.