Name: Dan Sullivan: I want to thank you, Mr. Chairman, for this markup and including my Bycatch Reduction Act, which is the most comprehensive bycatch bill ever to start moving through the Congress. You know, this issue is a really important one to My fellow Alaskans, I hear from so many throughout our state, all throughout our state. Salmon is the lifeblood of our state in Alaska.
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Description: I want to thank you, Mr. Chairman, for this markup and including my Bycatch Reduction Act, which is the most comprehensive bycatch bill ever to start moving through the Congress. You know, this issue is a really important one to My fellow Alaskans, I hear from so many throughout our state, all throughout our state. Salmon is the lifeblood of our state in Alaska.

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Dan Sullivan

62:54 - 63:22

“I want to thank you, Mr. Chairman, for this markup and including my Bycatch Reduction Act, which is the most comprehensive bycatch bill ever to start moving through the Congress. You know, this issue is a really important one to My fellow Alaskans, I hear from so many throughout our state, all throughout our state. Salmon is the lifeblood of our state in Alaska.”

Speaker: Dan Sullivan
Timestamp: 62:54 – 63:22
Transcript: Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation (Sullivan): Business meeting to consider S.3467, to reauthorize the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act, S.3929, to require the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to acquire and install certified airborne position reference tools at air traffic control towers, S.4573, to designate the Great Lakes Commission as a Regional Great Lakes Partnership, S.4749, to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to create a Federal cause of action to address jawboning, S.4938, to reduce trawl gear impacts on bycatch and seafloor habitat in the Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, and Gulf of Alaska, to establish gear performance standards, seafloor contact detection, and salmon excluder requirements, to improve Council transparency and participation, to prioritize ecosystem analyses, to modernize electronic monitoring, to prohibit unsustainable foreign seafood imports, and to establish a Bycatch Mitigation and Habitat Protection Assistance Fund, S.4950, to amend the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Organization Act to codify the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences, to direct the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to establish an initiative to support the development of emergency communication and tracking technologies, S.5188, to amend the Professional Boxing Safety Act of 1996 to establish requirements for unified boxing organizations and to further enhance the well-being of professional boxers, S.5224, to improve training for airport drivers in the movement area at commercial service airports through the establishment of a task force and the use of technology, H.R.7022, to provide for the transmission of emergency alerts by satellite, and promotions in the Coast Guard.
Community: Alaska News
Location: Alaska
Captured at: September 16, 2026

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But I want to thank them again because fisheries, Alaska fishermen and our coastal communities and interior communities on these issues are very, very important to me. And I want to thank all of my colleagues for that very strong bipartisan vote. And I want to thank you, Mr. Chairman, for this markup and including my Bycatch Reduction Act, which is the most comprehensive bycatch bill ever to start moving through the Congress. You know, this issue is a really important one to My fellow Alaskans, I hear from so many throughout our state, all throughout our state. Salmon is the lifeblood of our state in Alaska.

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