Just last week, several Committee Members were at COP 26, and we heard how important it is to act on climate change now before it is too late.
I urge my colleagues to support this legislation.
We wanted the conversation not to be about partisan politics, but to be an inclusive, transparent, and stakeholder driven process.
We learned from this process that we need to make some profound changes and updates to the MSA.
This legislation is also very heavy on science and data because to keep up with today's fishery management needs, we need to have the best a...
I feel that what we need to do at NMFS is provide more and better data and science...
I would like to thank my colleague, Congressman Brian Mast, for his leadership and support of this legislation.
Fish stocks are shifting, ecosystems are changing, and how we manage fish needs to change as well.
This common-sense legislation can lead our decisions for the next decade.
And, for Members who have expressed concern about better data and science, I will just note that we may have a chance in the days ahead to v...
One of the biggest significant proposals in the legislation Mr. Case and I are proposing is climate change in fisheries management.