Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"But you would agree with me that the system right now has really run amuck and needs to be set right."

"These decisions ought to be fact-based and founded in good science, but clearly in the real world what is happening is unacceptable because fishermen are losing livelihoods and people are losing food ..."

"And the fishing opportunities, to use your euphemism, which means to me there are fish to be caught, they are being thrown overboard, they are hitting the water dead, they are wasted, and fishermen ar..."

"these fishermen are throwing overboard tons of fish that are dead when they hit the water."