Ted Stevens: “I say failure is if you don't try. I say failure is if you give up.”

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

Joe Walker is not a number.

[I]n 1995, 60 factory trawlers discarded nearly as much fish in the Bering Sea as was kept in the New England lobster fishery, the Atlantic mackerel fishery, the Gulf of Mexico shrimp fishery, the Pacific sablefish fishery, and the North…

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.