Comment from stuart bronson

0648-ba65 with NOAA's mission statement of allocating the resource for the maximum impact across user classes, how does allowing a long line fishery to have such a huge dead discard quota fit into that equation? This is non-sensical. Suppose that if instead of tuna, these discards were sea turtles and dolphins - an emotionally charged national uproar would result after national media pictures hit the presss and then NOAA would have the long line fishery completely shut down so fast it would make your head spin! Turtles and dolphins carry little economic relavance. Blue fin tuna carry huge economic relavance. My point is that your agency seems to be drifting from its mandate. This is a clear case of NOAA being required to shut down the long line fishery when their bycatch reaches a reasonable quota. 160mt is orders of magnatude unreasonable.