Causes, Ramifications And Choices." And he has an awful lot of in- 

 sight and understanding of the issue. 



Gary Golas, who is chairman of the New Bedford Seafood Coali- 

 tion, has done a terrific job in helping to try to fill the void lefl: 

 when John Bullard went down to Washington. He is working on a 

 coalition of mainly larger vessels, but looking at the long-term is- 

 sues. 



Robert Griffith from Rhode Island is involved in State planning 

 for economic development. 



Bill Hogan, professor of economics at University of Massachu- 

 setts at Dartmouth. He has done a report on the impact of the fish- 

 ing industry in the area and understands the economics of it ex- 

 tremely well, having studied the industry for a long time. 



Gail Johnson, from Maine, is the owner of a longliner and the 

 former president of the Maine Fishermen's Wives Association. 



Frank Mirarchi, a small boat fisherman fi-om Scituate who 

 served on the New England Fishery Management Council for many 

 years, has proven to be extremely conservation minded, and served 

 with great distinction. He was not able to continue serving this 

 particular period because of the shift of the council members to 

 New Bedford, but I hope very much will return to the council at 

 the first opportunity. 



Peter Shelley of the Conservation Law Foundation which really 

 is one of the groundbreaking groups interested in fisheries. 



Mark Simonitsch, a small boat captain, runs a packaging plant 

 out in Chatham and has been awarded a grant to start a new 

 aquaculture operation. 



Representative Bruce Tarr has worked tirelessly representing the 

 Gloucester region and has been a tremendous resource on this 

 issue. As a result of his effort Gloucester fisherman have become 

 well-organized working on this issue. 



Now, let me just very quickly summarize and then we are going 

 to get right into the dialog. I promised you I would not talk for too 

 long, and I will not. 



There is no way to avoid dealing with the issue that is in fi-ont 

 of us today. Fisheries are a renewable resource. It requires parents 

 to provide children, just as it does for human beings. And if you 

 scoop up all the parents, there will be no children. It is very sim- 

 ple. We know it. 



The problem is today that all over the world, all over the world, 

 there are too many boats chasing too few fish. It is not an Amer- 

 ican problem, it is not a New Bedford problem, it is not a New Eng- 

 land problem. It is a global problem. 



Whereas fishermen once went out and threw a lead line over and 

 checked the nature of the bottom with a greased lead line, today 

 they have sophisticated sonar and devices that can distinguish be- 

 tween different kinds of sand and pick up one single fish. It has 

 become so sophisticated that it is no wonder that with more boats 

 fishing there are fewer fish available. This is not a complicated 

 equation. 



What is complicated is the politics of long-term conservation and 

 planning. Because clearly economics are at stake. In order to pre- 

 serve the resource when there are too many people pursuing it and 



