Brown discussed a 2011 U.S. Inspector General report that found the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration had used money collected from fines paid by fishermen to purchase a more than $300,000 luxury boat.

"It would be bad enough if they had purchased this boat with taxpayer dollars. But they didn't. They paid for it with money that should belong to our struggling fishermen," Brown said during his floor speech. "They paid for it out of the fines that fishermen pay into the pot when they mistakenly catch the wrong kind of fish. Those dollars are supposed to stay in fishing communities to help the fishermen."

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