[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 190 (Monday, December 3, 2018)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1594]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        TRIBUTE TO LARRY COTTER

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                             HON. DON YOUNG

                               of alaska

                    in the house of representatives

                        Monday, December 3, 2018

  Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Mr. Speaker, upon the occasion of his 
retirement, I rise today to give special recognition to Lawrence P. 
``Larry'' Cotter, a great friend and an outstanding, hardworking, and 
dedicated Alaskan. Larry has contributed tremendously to the positive 
evolution of our fisheries management in Alaska, the Pacific Northwest, 
and indeed the entire country. Larry has lived in Alaska and worked in 
the commerial fishing industry since 1974. He spent over four years as 
a seafood processing worker in Juneau, and eight years as a labor 
organizer and representative for seafood processing workers and 
longshoremen. Larry served on the Advisory Panel to the North Pacific 
Fishery Management Council for six years and then as a voting member of 
the Council for an additional six years. The time of Larry's service on 
the Council was during the transition years when foreign fishing was 
being phased out, our U.S. domestic fishing and processing capabilities 
were stepping up to replace the foreign fleets, and allocation issues 
among U.S. fisheries interests were first coming to the forefront. 
These were difficult, challenging, and exciting times--during which 
Larry was chair of several committees, including the Bycatch Committee 
and Crab Management Committee. Larry also served as chair of the 
Council's Steller Sea Lion Mitigation Committee and Alaska Seafood 
Marketing Institute's Responsible Fisheries Management Committee.
  Most recently, until late this year, Larry has served as founding CEO 
of the Community Development Quota (CDQ) Group, known as the Aleutian 
Pribilof Island Community Development Association, or ``APICDA.'' It is 
in this area of service to APICDA and his helping to develop, implement 
and sustain, not only APICDA, but the entire CDQ program, that Larry 
did perhaps his best work, accomplishing goals that will have positive 
impacts on Western Alaskan Communities for generations to come. Larry's 
work on the formation of Alaska's CDQ program has benefited all of the 
participating communities and his more than twenty-five years with 
APICDA has helped to develop the workforce, build infrastructure, and 
improve the economy throughout the Western Alaska Region.
  Larry's longtime leadership in the seafood industry has helped to 
guide and shape the policies and programs that many enjoy today. Many 
observers, myself included, have correctly noted that Alaska has the 
best managed fisheries in the country, perhaps in the world, and I know 
we could not have achieved that status without Larry's tireless 
dedication and devotion to making our seafood industry sustainable for 
the long haul. Thank you Larry for your tremendous contributions to 
sustainable fisheries and to the participation of our coastal 
communities in those fisheries. Enjoy your retirement, and best of luck 
in your continuing endeavors.

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