How would we correct that, because this is what I am asking. NMFS is an agency that has no real qualification for anything, and they are maintaining their brown envelope jobs.
How much did NOAA spend in hiring that person? This is the question I am going to ask you, and I want it in writing.
I go back to Mr. Lang. In scat examples taken, I believe, by the State, 94 percent of the scat from sea lions shows no cod evidence.
I have been in this business 40 years, and I have negotiated with NMFS and NOAA and they seem to ignore the paying customers.
You get rid of that word 'available.' Best science.
You know, Mr. Tsukada notes that the Western DPS since 2000 has increased 14 percent, yet your opinion relies on a theory that birth rate is...
Incompetent.
You have done something from the top down with no consultation, no understanding, and no science.
I want all that information for the Committee.
Well, those restrictions were put in in 2000, and the pups are increasing significantly, yet you shut that area down. What grounds? Where is...
There is no shortage of sea lions, none. The pups are growing.