Wayne Gilchrest: “This resolution corrects the text of H.R. 5946, Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 2006. The…”

“This resolution corrects the text of H.R. 5946, Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 2006. The Senate amendment to that bill included a provision not in the jurisdiction of the Committee on Resources, and with the passage of this resolution, that provision will be deleted when the bill is enrolled. And, Mr. Speaker, the Magnuson-Stevens Act is an act 30 years old that manages the Nation's fisheries out 200 miles. It is a bill that deals with an industry that is nearly $100 billion annually. And what we have done with this bill, with the Members, with the chairman of the Resources Committee, Mr. Pombo; with the former chairman of the Resources Committee, Mr. Don Young; Mr. Rahall; Frank Pallone; Jim Saxton; and a number of Members; and I also want to compliment the staff on the House side, the staff on both committees, personal staff. And those people who helped us with the Senate, they have made a bill that is going to be successful, the Magnuson-Stevens Act, because this act enables the management of a public resource that is worth about $100 billion to be integrated with fishermen, with processers, with distributors, with university scientists, government scientists, council members, and private citizens. The bill goes a long way to sustain and restore the Nation's fishery.”