But the federal government has to make sure that if there's this once-in-a-lifetime catastrophe or a once-in-a-decade catastrophe that we're helping each other.
He said it was a "critical time for fisheries management" but stressed that he was committed to take the "once-in-a-decade opportunity" to overcome the "structural failings" of the CFP.
Republicans elsewhere claimed this was proof that the famous realignment that began in the Reagan era, more than a decade ago, is continuing apace in the once-solidly Democratic South.