I'm distressed at the fact that we don't have updated data in which to make our assessments.

I'm concerned that we're not following the intent of Congress.

I think that your organization is interpreting the Act in a way that it was not intended.

I think this is essential to obtaining an accurate count of the recreational catch.

Ending overfishing, maintaining reasonable access and sustaining economic activity are not mutually exclusive.

Could you give us what their recommendations were, or what their conclusions were, with respect to, first, the Russell Senate Office Building stairs.

I would agree. And I'm looking at perhaps sponsoring that legislation, myself.

I think we can reconvene, here.

In that regard, Ms. Chrisler, probably the act requires you to take certain actions for inspections. It doesn't specify how many or how often or that you have to do it.

And if it needs to be modified, it wouldn't necessarily prohibit self-inspections with oversight.

Our approach is to find the plan and work our way into it, so that we don't get into a situation where, in order to meet the objective, somebody thinks we should close the CVC 2 days a week, or something like that.

It would be helpful to develop a scorecard because I suspect that as you went back and looked at other reports, some of the things that were suggested in the past were still not done and questions still not answered.