Rob Bishop: “the status quo is simply not acceptable. We have to come up with a different way of doing what we are doing.”

If the gentleman has no other speakers, I yield back the balance of my time.

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

All of those legitimate questions are not going to be addressed in this Committee hearing today.

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.