If you would like to help and make comments on what need to be done PLEASE have it back to me by Friday Moring at 8:00am. I have to work on this Friday as it going to rain and I canceled my charters. This has to be back to the House on Monday Moring.
Thanks
Keith
Captain Logan,
Attached are additional questions for the record from your testimony before the House Committee on Natural Resources oversight hearing on Reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.
Please respond to these questions in Word format, and submit those responses electronically to myself and Dave Whaley, by Monday, April 15, 2013.
Feel free to contact us with any questions, at 202-225-2761.
Thank you.
Marc Alberts
Clerk
Committee on Natural Resources
Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular Affairs
Follow-up Questions
Full Committee Oversight Hearing
Reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act
March 13, 2013, 10:00 a.m.
Captain Keith Logan
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Several witnesses indicated concern that Councils, when attempting to balance the prevention of overfishing with achieving optimum yield, are not considering economic and social considerations equally with ecological considerations. Do you agree with this concern? If so, how do you think the Act could be modified to create a better balance?
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Criticism of the way NOAA has implemented the Annual Catch Limit provisions of the 2006 amendments has been made clear. NOAA has now started the process for revising their National Standard #1 Guidelines dealing with how Councils set Annual Catch Limits, overfishing definitions, flexibility in dealing with multi-species fisheries, etc. While this is good news, it is likely that these changes in the regulations will take at least another year or more to finalize and implement. Should Congress trust the agency to do it right this time or should Congress amend the Act to fix the problem? If you believe Congress should act, can you g