On the hail system, I heard a lot of stupid things before I went down there, and I've heard a few stupid ones since I went up there, but I'm telling you, when you have fishermen on the water for four days and can't call in their catches, to expect the fishermen to wait on the water for 96 hours to make a phone call to tell what they have on board.... I guess the only answer to that is there has to be a way, 24 hours a day, however long your season is, to be able to call in the catch. That shouldn't be a very difficult thing to straighten out as to how many people are in the system.
On November 6th, 2006. See this statement in context.