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Rick Bellavance
81:34 - 82:10
"Anytime there's a compromise to the quality of the data that we use to make those decisions or the personnel that we need to promulgate those regulations, publish them in the Federal Register and so on, it's just more difficult for us to do our job."
“Anytime there's a compromise to the quality of the data that we use to make those decisions or the personnel that we need to promulgate those regulations, publish them in the Federal Register and so on, it's just more difficult for us to do our job.”
- Speaker
- Rick Bellavance
- Timestamp
- 81:34 – 82:10
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- June 4, 2025
From the transcript
Anytime there's a compromise to the quality of the data that we use to make those decisions or the personnel that we need to promulgate those regulations, publish them in the Federal Register and so on, it's just more difficult for us to do our job. I think you mentioned that we typically try to put an uncertainty buffer in the quotas to compensate for some of that uncertainties that we have. And that directly impacts the fiscal fishing community by allowing less fish to be taken out of the water. So super important, and I just highlight this once again. The President's proposed budget cuts NOAA by 30%.