[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 1 (Wednesday, January 4, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S21]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES ACT

  Mr. KERRY. Mr. President, the Senator from Alaska introduced the 
Sustainable Fisheries Act previously and placed my comments in the 
Record as if read in full.
  I will simply address those comments except to say that we have a 
crisis in Massachusetts and New England, now a crisis that will grow 
across this country and all coastal States. We desperately need a 
better regimen for managing the fisheries of this country. It is my 
hope that colleagues, while we wrestle with the symbols and the quick 
hot buttons of the American political process, will focus on a program 
of enormous importance to people whose livelihoods depends on fishing.


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