Rick Leard Quotations

I wouldn't suspect that we're going to get much further into October.

I would guess we're getting pretty close right now.

Trip limits, in reality, it really didn't do anything to slow landings, especially starting out at 10,000 (pounds) per trip.

We're trying to get (commercial fishermen) out of only fishing 10 days and into quotas, so they can fish whenever they want to.

There was 80 percent support for the referendum from eligible permit holders.

The number of red snapper caught illegally is like a constant in the equation when we do stock assessments. It's always there.

In the long run, we're talking about an individual fishing quota, where the permit holder would have their own individual shares.