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Managing Fish Stocks in Arctic Ocean

Floor Speech

Date: May 19, 2008
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Animals and Wildlife

MANAGING FISH STOCKS IN ARCTIC OCEAN -- (House of Representatives - May 19, 2008)

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Mr. ISSA. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

I too rise in support of Senate Joint Resolution 17, introduced by Senator Ted Stevens. Clearly, he knows firsthand the importance of fishing to the United States, to the State of Alaska, and to the world. He also has seen, in his tenure in the Congress, firsthand the effects of overfishing.

As one after another worldwide fleets begin deploying to our shores when their own shores have been overfished, we will have and will see a reduction in our domestic catches. For that reason I believe this resolution sends a strong statement of America's policy to manage scientifically our fisheries both onshore and offshore, and I join with the gentlewoman from Guam in support of this resolution and urge its success.

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