What I am trying to understand though is that if you have less fleet days, and yet you feel that you are going to actually catch up on the surveys, how do you recognize that?
Some of the data is as old as 10 years, and so are you putting that at a priority as well, going back to those that are maybe the most overd...
Is it fair to say that if stock surveys and assessments are not done in a timely manner by your agency, fishermen pay the price because of t...
Now, I understand that the NOAA fleet will be able to spend about half of the amount of time in Fiscal year 2011 as it did in Fiscal Year 20...
So if you really wanted to create jobs, you would have abandoned these global warming fairy tales and shifted your efforts to ending the dri...
And would you acknowledge that that has an economic impact, certainly to the commercial fishermen out there who have a smaller and smaller w...
I don't think there is.
Old data means your scientists and fishery managers include multiple layers of precaution when running their models.
I would urge you, consistent with your agency's mission to 'conserve and manage coastal and marine resources to meet our Nation's economic, ...
This is not acceptable.
Lower harvest levels mean fishery closures or restrictions which means less jobs and more economic harm to coastal communities.