Any one who Cherry Picks his facts (e.g.,  "Dean Sensui of Hawaii Goes Fishing rebuts the minimum impact notion by referencing a recent catch made inside the proposed expansion zone by three longline boats that landed a total of 74,000 pounds of fish. That amount represented one-third of the day’s catch. Without those 74,000 pounds, stores and restaurants would have had 30 percent less ahi that day. If we had 30 percent less ahi every day, imagine what that would do to prices and availability."  One day is not every day and brings into question Mr. Apo's overall reasoning on this issue.  
Longliners support corporate and wealthy owers at the expense of the underpaid and oft-abuse crews.  SEN Schatz's proposed amendment which would further reduce any impact on the local longline industry is over gernerous.