Political Quotes

“The Clerk has an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of title II add the following: SEC. __. NORTHEAST REGIONAL PILOT RESEARCH TRAWL SURVEY AND STUDY. (a) Industry-based Pilot Study.--Within 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Commerce shall, in coordination with the relevant Councils selected by the Secretary and the Northeast Area Monitoring and Assessment Program (NEAMAP), develop a fishing industry-based Northeast regional pilot research trawl survey and study to enhance and provide improvement to current National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration vessel trawl surveys. (b) Components.--Under the pilot survey and study-- (1) the Secretary-- (A) may select fishing industry vessels to participate in the study by issuing a request for procurement; (B) may use the NEAMAP Southern New England/Mid-Atlantic Nearshore Trawl Survey as a model for the pilot survey; and (C) shall outfit participating vessels with a peer-reviewed net configuration; and (2) the selected Councils shall, in partnership with the National Marine Fisheries Service Northeast Fisheries Science Center and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, collect data and evaluate discrepancies between fishing industry vessel data and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration vessel data, for 5 years.…”