Rob Bishop: “We will hear from one of our witnesses today about a similar model in Wisconsin.”

The current system protects biodiversity over 100 percent of the Economic Zone of the United States through the councils.

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.

This is a good bill, and we obviously have no problems with this particular bill. When I started, I talked about kleinigkeiten on the small stuff. As good as this is, it is still small stuff and, actually, it is taken out--it is a portion…

Since the minority leader is supportive, or I wouldn't be here, and I am the ranking member and I am supportive of it, and the Navajo Nation has been told. The chairman of the committee is in support of it, does that not constitute the…