Maria Cantwell actually said...

"We want what is the amount of money that is needed for stock assessment, and what level can we fund, and what are the economic impacts of that."

"But doesn't stock assessment equal jobs?"

"One of the best tools that they have is to rationalize fisheries. And what we found is once the fisheries rationalize it becomes dramatically safer."

"I think you and I, as you said, could probably be here all day with a whole variety of questions because this is important to both of our states and the interconnectedness of it all is practically obv..."