text: Glenn, I agree with what you're saying.  Alaska is way bigger and has way more fisheries so their gross economic benefit is bigger.  In Hawaii we are one relatively small longline fishery.  That being said, when you consider the supporting industries like restaurants, sport fishing, cultural exports like poke, this fishery is tremendously important.  I wish the supporter of the monument would recognize that.  They seem to be blinded by their privilege of being able to make a living from PEW grants and environmental NGOs.  They don't care about having fish because they can afford whole foods beef that comes from cows guaranteed to have been given a toy to play with before slaughter.