Ted Stevens: “The last two years have been a time of extraordinary accomplishment, effort, dedication, and duty for the men and women…”

They are not numbers. They were people, living, breathing, caring, loving people. And they're not anymore. And there is no rational explanation as to why not.

It is the wrong mine for the wrong place.

The whole purpose of the Act is to protect our fisheries and have a conservation ethic to be the major goal.

Thanks to the foresight of Senator Ted Stevens and his congressional colleagues in establishing the North Pacific Research Board in 1997.