17 Quotes by Brian Gorman

There is no question that it is a distinct population.

It is a very slow and laborious process. It's not a practical way to deal with nuisance animals, especially on a large scale.

The actual hunt is a long way off. This is not a rubber-stamp process.

This would be unprecedented and, needless to say, would have tremendous effects on fishermen. But we don't see around this, is what we're saying. No flexibility.

We wouldn't be proposing to list these guys if their situation wasn't perilous.

Within three or four weeks they were back.

We feel like there's a bit of a glass ceiling in San Francisco. We're full out -- we're so ... driven but, and I may be wrong, it seems like there's very little industry here.

We did an independent analysis of Oregon's numbers, and we came to the conclusion that their science was pretty tight, and accurate. Our own biological assessment says these fish have a lot of pluck. They're very resilient. They're subject to considerable fluctuations, depending on ocean conditions, but they seem to bounce back if they're given the opportunity.

Between the time we proposed to list these animals as threatened and now, we've discovered the population is in a more delicate situation than we had assumed.