{"id":26205,"date":"2025-04-18T00:59:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T00:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26205"},"modified":"2025-04-18T01:23:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T01:23:33","slug":"trump-opens-marine-national-monument-to-commercial-fisheries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26205","title":{"rendered":"Trump Opens Marine National Monument to Commercial Fisheries"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Trump on Thursday said he was allowing commercial fishing in one of the world\u2019s largest ocean reserves, introducing industrial operations for the first time in more than a decade to a vast area of the Pacific dotted with coral atolls and populated by endangered sea turtles and whales.<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump issued an executive order<\/a> opening up the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument, which lies some 750 miles west of Hawaii. President George W. Bush established the monument in 2009 and President Barack Obama expanded it in 2014 to its current area of nearly 500,000 square miles.<\/p>\n

A second executive order directed the Commerce Department to loosen regulations<\/a> that \u201coverly burden America\u2019s commercial fishing, aquaculture, and fish processing industries.\u201d It also asks the Interior Department to conduct a review of all marine monuments and issue recommendations about any that should be opened to commercial fishing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe United States should be the world\u2019s dominant seafood leader,\u201d Mr. Trump wrote.<\/p>\n

The marine monument, a chain of islands and atolls amid more than 160 seamounts, is a trove of marine biodiversity. Environmentalists said opening the area to commercial fishing would pose a serious threat to the area\u2019s fragile ecosystems.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr. Trump, accompanied in the Oval Office by a fisherman from American Samoa and Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen, the territory\u2019s delegate to the House of Representatives, said his predecessors had deprived Pacific island communities of \u201cfertile grounds.\u201d<\/p>\n

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President Trump on Thursday said he was allowing commercial fishing in one of the world\u2019s largest ocean reserves, introducing industrial operations for the first time in more than a decade to a vast area of the Pacific dotted with coral atolls and populated by endangered sea turtles and whales.Mr. Trump issued an executive order opening up the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument, which lies some 750 miles west of Hawaii. President George W. Bush established the monument in 2009 and President Barack Obama expanded it in 2014 to its current area of nearly 500,000 square miles.A second executive order directed the Commerce Department to loosen regulations that \u201coverly burden America\u2019s commercial fishing, aquaculture, and fish processing industries.\u201d It also asks the Interior Department to conduct a review of all marine monuments and issue recommendations about any that should be opened to commercial fishing.\u201cThe United States should be the world\u2019s dominant seafood leader,\u201d Mr. Trump wrote.The marine monument, a chain of islands and atolls amid more than 160 seamounts, is a trove of marine biodiversity. Environmentalists said opening the area to commercial fishing would pose a serious threat to the area\u2019s fragile ecosystems.Mr. Trump, accompanied in the Oval Office by a fisherman from American Samoa and Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen, the territory\u2019s delegate to the House of Representatives, said his predecessors had deprived Pacific island communities of \u201cfertile grounds.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26207,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26208,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26205\/revisions\/26208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}