Whereas estuary regions cover only 13 percent of the land area in the continental United States but contain nearly 40 percent of the population, 39 percent of the jobs, and 47 percent of the economic output of the United States; Whereas the oceans, estuaries, and Great Lakes of the United States continue to fuel economic growth across the United States with employment from the estuarine and ocean economy growing at 2.6 percent in 2019, compared to the national average employment growth of 1.4 percent; Whereas estuary, ocean, and Great Lakes economic sectors created 88,000 new jobs between 2018 to 2019, employed 3,500,000 people, and contributed $351,000,000,000 in gross domestic product; Whereas employment in the ocean economy has increased by 25 percent from prerecession levels in 2007, 3 times the rate of recovery of the United States economy as a whole; Whereas the commercial and recreational fishing industries support over 1,700,000 jobs in the United States; Whereas, in 2020— (1) commercial and recreational saltwater fishing in the United States generated more than $253,000,000,000 in sales and contributed $117,000,000,000 to the gross domestic product of the United States; (2) angler trip expenditures totaled nearly $10,200,000,000; and (3) saltwater recreational fishing supported over 594,000 jobs, generated $98,028,000,000 in sales across the economy, and contributed $54,962,000,000 to the gross domestic product of the United States; Whereas estuaries provide vital habitats for— (1) countless species of fish and wildlife, including more than 68 percent of the commercial fish catch in the United States by value and 80 percent of the recreational fish catch in the United States by weight; and (2) many species that are listed as threatened or endangered species