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On a grander scale, what we are seeing with fisheries globally 

 is the same thing we have been through regionally, and we know 

 what we are doing there now. We are reducing effort, reducing 

 days at sea, reducing catch, and we will have no alternative but to 

 do the same globally. The question is whether we pursue manage- 

 ment in an orderly fashion or whether it is going to be every coun- 

 try and fisherman for themselves with fish warfare on the seas and 

 huge international tensions resulting. 



There will be enough tension if we simply try to manage in an 

 organized way, but I think we are better off trying to do that. I am 

 going to urge Secretary Wirth and others to heighten the level of 

 attention to these issues, and we will see where we go. 



Thank you for being part of this today. We appreciate it. 



We stand adjourned. 



[Whereupon, at 12:42 p.m., the hearing was adjourned.] 



