Clearly, a prosperous, democratic, and stable East Asia is crucial to our own national security, to our own safety, but also to our own prosperity.

In so many ways, we like to hold up South Korea as an example of progress.

I look forward to working on a very robust agenda to ensure that the subcommittee plays a strong role within the foreign policy community in ensuring that our nation's policies in East Asia and the Pacific region further both our national…

If your economy is demanding 2 million people a year to fill 2 million new jobs at a certain level, but you're only allowing a million people to come in, you have a supply-and-demand problem.

And my final question is, do any of you have any specific recommendations as to how we can improve the collection of data related to the recreational industry in particular?

some of that money that was designed efficiently, the intended purpose to support these regionally driven fisheries, research, and management programs, some of that money has been diverted toward operational uses, correct?

Unfortunately for New York today, neither of those two core principles prevail when it comes to our most prize summer fish, the fluke.

Are your organizations, are they prepared to handle the increased, if increased funding came, I mean, I know this sounds like a funny question.

I'd urge the Committee to consider the expert testimony here today from our New York witnesses.

Our commercial saltwater fishing industry provides more than 100,000 jobs in Florida.

We're shining a national spotlight on one of the gravest problems facing New York's fishing industry.

do you all agree that we need to maintain or increase the funding for the data collection?