Fisheries Management Successes In Alaska And The Reauthorization Of The Magnuson Stevens Fishery Conservation And Management Act

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Download or read book Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act Reauthorization, Vol. 2 written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act Reauthorization, Vol. 2: Hearings Before the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries House of Representatives One Hundred Third Congress, First Session on Reauthorization of the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act to Ensure and Our Coastal Communities, August 12 The Committee met, pursuant to call, at 9:30 a.m., in the Old Federal Building, U.S. Courthouse, 605 West Fourth Avenue, room 130, Anchorage, Alaska, Hon. Gerry E. Studds (Chairman of the Committee) presiding. Present: Representatives Studds, Manton, Andrews, and Young. Staff Present: Sue Waldron, Press Secretary; Jean Flemma, Professional Staff; Tom Lyons, Professional Staff; Jim Mathews, Subcommittee Staff Director; Lesli Gray, Majority Clerk; Eleanor Mohler, Assistant Clerk; Cyndy Wilkinson, Minority Chief Counsel; Rod Moore, Minority Professional Staff; and Margherita Woods, Minority Professional Staff. Statement Of Hon. Gerry E. Studds, A U.S. Representative From Massachusetts, And, Chairman, Committee On Merchant Marine And Fisheries Chairman Studds. We will begin the hearing. I have a formal statement which I will spare everyone and put it in the record as it is. I just want to say this is not the first time that we have had the opportunity to accept Don Young's hospitality to come to Alaska which he has finally convinced me after all these years of serving together is a very large State. I have to confess that now. Don and I, as you know, are two of the only three surviving Members of this Committee who were actually on the Committee when the Magnuson Act was enacted in 1976, and it is interesting to me what has occurred. When this bill was first introduced, it was two pages long, if that. The statute is now 80-some pages long, I believe, and we are contemplating adding to it. It is a lot more complicated than any of us ever envisioned. When we first introduced it, I don't think anybody had ever conceived of a creature known as a Regional Fisheries Management Council. They evolved in the course of the initial debates about the bill, and they are unique animals in the history of government organizations. They aren't really government. They aren't really private. They are something in between; they are unique. They have worked better in some regions than in others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.