1 DR. GRASSLE: One thing you might do for the introductory material 



2 is ask each person in each area to Xerox a few pages of relevant 



3 material so that people don't have to have everything in the talk, 



4 everything in the abstract or whatever, don't have to write anything 



5 new. 



6 Usually, there are a few very relevant pages of a report that 



7 would pertain to some of the basic issues. 



8 DR. BUTMAN: Also, this is one of the few meetings I've ever been 



9 at where they've had everything recorded verbatim. I'm not sure what 



10 the use of that in the long term is going to be, but it's different than 



11 a free exchange. 



12 In some ways, I guess it doesn't really limit your discussion, but 



13 it makes you think twice about what you say. It seems like-- 



14 DR. TEAL: You get used to it very quickly. Brad. Scientific 



15 committees are always recorded, every word, the whole thing. 



16 DR. BUTMAN 



17 DR. AURAND 



18 DR. BUTMAN 



It never comes back to haunt you? 



Most people never read it. 



So, why do it? Is it actually ever used? 



19 DR. TEAL: To produce a summary, yes. 



20 DR. AURAND: We do have the option, in the case of some possible 



21 misinterpretation of the conclusions or a disagreement over the 



22 consensus, it is conceivable, but I think very unlikely--sort of like an 



23 oil spill --that we would ever go back into the transcript to try to 



24 straighten it out. 



25 If it came to that, you would have at least a record of what 



26 everybody said, and you can try to figure out if a mistake had been made 



27 and that's really what it is for. I don't know that it was necessary. 



28 We have never done this before. I suppose one of the things you 



29 could comment on is whether or not you think it is useful to have it 



30 recorded or potentially useful. It is possible to use it to work on 



31 comments back on the draft and things like that, too. 



32 DR. COOPER: I'd like to make a comment here. I myself personally 



33 found these two days very productive and very stimulating. I am 



34 especially pleased, having been a Fisheries employee when a lot of our 



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