17 Quotes by Brian Gorman

Any natural or man-made disaster ... could really wipe out many of these animals.

This is not the sort of thing that you crank out in a weekend,

This doesn't meet the standard that says in the foreseeable future these fish will become endangered. We proposed a year and a half ago to list them as threatened. But we have been convinced, in large part because of the hatchery and harvest reforms that were undertaken very aggressively, that a listing is not warranted.

It's a done deal. It will affect ocean fisheries up and down the coast.

Taking five whales a year would not have any biological impact on the population.

Clearly, if we don't do anything, I think it's accurate to say a number of populations of salmon will be extinct or close to extinct in 100 years,

Because the population has such a small number of sexually active males in it, a catastrophic event -- an oil spill, a chemical spill -- could really make a huge difference in the population.

The Makahs are hardly responsible for what somebody else does. The Makah have a clear right (under an 1855 treaty) to hunt gray whales.