Brian Bilbray: “Let me just say the 5,000 number is being bandied around as if whatever is on paper ends up being reality. The House of…”

“Let me just say the 5,000 number is being bandied around as if whatever is on paper ends up being reality. The House of Representatives has to recognize it is a real world out there. The 5,000 number exists in the law today. The mortality rate is half of that. If the industries and the fishermen out there now are not killing at the rate of limit, how can we assume that somehow by keeping the same number it will double the kill? It is irrational. It is trying to play to emotions. Let us try to keep it to science.”