Rob Bishop: “Thank you. I appreciate that, and I appreciate all of you taking the time to come here.”

The NOAA Corps is a very small, underutilized but uniformed service group. It prevents questions with this type of group, with their history that they have, first of all: Why should they exist in the first place? But more significantly…

I think many of those local fisheries on the coast would have some quibbling with your jurisdictional approach.

Thank you. I appreciate it, sir.

the Magnuson-Stevens Act is not just for the conservation and management of fishery resources, but also to assure that our citizens benefit from employment, food supply, and revenue which could be generated from these resources.