Rob Bishop: “The State plan is a good plan. I want to have the chance of succeeding.”

The current system protects biodiversity over 100 percent of the Economic Zone of the United States through the councils.

I think many of those local fisheries on the coast would have some quibbling with your jurisdictional approach.

Twenty years from now, come back here, and we will tell the gentleman we told him so. Madam Speaker, I have no objections to the bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

State management gives you a greater opportunity of having success than if you have a Federal Government management system