There should be places that are off limits to commercial fishing, just as there are places that are off limits to hunting, drilling, mining, driving, smoking, nude sunbathing and other activities that may have negative consequences for society if allowed to occur anywhere.
Bishop advocates for restrictions on commercial fishing to protect certain areas.
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I appreciate this opportunity. This bill has got one thing that I think is going for it very heavily in that it authorizes the opportunity of having the Federal Government being forced to actually deal with the local community on…
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Twenty years from now, come back here, and we will tell the gentleman we told him so. Madam Speaker, I have no objections to the bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.
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