"Because otherwise, if it's a smaller, a shorter time period, you've got a lot of customers, but you only have so many boats, but they can't survive on a 28-day cycle."
"The Magnuson-Stevens Act...provides the architectural framework for the conservation and management of our Nation's fisheries."
"I think that's the best way to sort of gather the information that we can improve management with."
"It may not be a perfect law, but it certainly has had some substantial success."
"why the public is so mad at the Federal Government in many different ways is we say something and then when the money's allocated, then it goes to somewhere else."
"This subcommittee has been known to bring the bills forward, as we did last year on Coast Guard, in a bipartisan approach."
"If I can leave you with a thought... would you mind considering that thought and bring back to the Committee at some point?"
"We get a lot of talk and not a whole lot of action."
"In Alaska we have one more element called subsistence hunters."
"These reforms...put us on a firm footing for the sustainable management of our fisheries and our fisheries resources."
"We may be literally across the country from each other; the issues that we face are pretty important."