After much debate and deliberation…
After much debate and deliberation the NMFS has decided upon a new motto.
As they are a government agency, they felt they should have a motto to define their objectives, which might not always be abundantly clear. A grant was sought after and the intrepid researchers managed to corral some 2.3 million USD to finance the studies. Words were considered, words were chosen and then it was all sent to a committee meeting in Las Vegas that took place over a five day weekend in late June. There the words were reviewed, talked about, considered some more and then sent to the peer review subcommittee for further review. While the main committee spent some time and grant money in the main casino, the subcommittee met in the sub-casino and discussed and considered some more. After two more days of intense work on the part of these dedicated scientific types, the motto was scheduled for tentative agreement at a date to be determined as soon as the casino closed or as soon as the five day weekend came to an end, whichever occurred first. In order to prevent any more over fishing from occurring the weekend was declared over a mere four and a half days after it began and all respective committee members retired to their quarters to hotly debate and discuss the issue over ten hours of intense sleep.
An entry is scheduled to be inserted in the Federal Register by an as yet un-named Federal Bureau of Something or Other and the public comment period will be publicly announced at that time in a relatively public manner. Honest.
We here at the Settee Club have scoured the records of the peer review and have determined that the new motto for the NMFS is a quote from the great scientist Albert Einstein, a great and wonderful paragon of fishery science if ever there was one. It is as follows:
