REAUTHORIZATION OF THE MAGNUSON FISH- 

 ERY, CONSERVATION, AND MANAGEMENT 

 ACT 



SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1993 



U.S. Senate, 

 Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, 



Ketchikan, AK. 

 The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10 a.m. at the U.S. 

 Coast Guard Base, Ketchikan, Alaska, Hon. Ernest F. Hollings 

 (chairman of the committee) presiding. 



Staff members assigned to this hearing: Penelope D. Dalton, sen- 

 ior professional staff member; and John A. Moran, minority staff 

 counsel. 



OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR HOLLINGS 



The Chairman. Good morning. The committee will come to order. 



Let me at the outset thank our host, the Coast Guard. They have 

 gotten us here through rough weather. Around the world, Senator 

 Stevens and I continually brag about the Coast Guard. Inciden- 

 tally, I have been in the Senate almost 27 years. Captain Dorsey, 

 that is the first time I have been in a Coast Guard plane. 



So, it is not that I have been ferried around or favored particu- 

 larly by the Coast Guard. It is just that the American people have 

 been favored by the Coast Guard. They are doing an outstanding 

 job, underfunded, and yet, excellently staffed. And we are grateful 

 to you. 



Captain Dorsey. Thank you. 



The Chairman. I want to thank you. Let me also thank Senator 

 Stevens. I have had the opportunity to thank him in various ways 

 in Dillingham and Kodiak and otherwise. I think one of our duties 

 as Senators is to make friends for our State. In that regard, I do 

 not know of anyone who has made more friends for his State than 

 Ted Stevens of Alaska. He has made friends throughout the admin- 

 istration, throughout the Democratic ranks, as well as being a lead- 

 er in his own Republican ranks. 



He does that because he knows what he is talking about. He 

 travels and sees, and he convinces us. And now, as a result of our 

 hearings, I am becoming fully informed. Fisheries in the United 

 States yield about a 10 billion pound catch annually. Of that har- 

 vest, 6 billion pounds are caught right here in one State. Alaska 

 has a greater catch than the other 49 States combined. 



In addition, I have learned that the State of Alaska, I would say, 

 in proportion to citizen population has a greater number of con- 



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