Rob Bishop: “This is the second of a series of oversight hearings on policies that involve the National Environmental Policy Act.”

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

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

Thank you. I appreciate it, sir.