Don Young: “I just think that is very inappropriate.”

If we are going to talk about consultation and justice, even though you may disagree with them, you have to consult with them.

I empathize with subsistence users in Western Alaska, and while I can never fully know the pain and sense of loss that they are feeling or their connection to the resource and culture, I appreciate what they are saying and am aware of the…

Mr. Chairman, thank you, and I hope you understand it is awfully early in the morning for the Mayor and myself. You guys have a nice, leisure morning. We have to be up at 4 a.m. to have this hearing.

I believe the councils can actually manage the fish better than a centralized political figure.