Rob Bishop: “Mismanagement, as I view it, of Federal lands did not start recently. It has gone on for several decades, long before…”

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

State management gives you a greater opportunity of having success than if you have a Federal Government management system

There really is no reason to add to this hearing--unless it is to give Members another 5 minutes to campaign, or speak on the bills. It is kind of a waste of time.

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