CLEANTECHNICA • June 13, 2020
Donald Trump has decreed that the Atlantic Ocean’s only fully protected marine sanctuary is now open to commercial fishing. Fishing can resume at the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument off the coast of New England, Trump said during a roundtable discussion with commercial fishermen and Maine’s former Republican governor, Paul LePage. “We’re undoing his (Obama’s) executive order. What was his reason? He didn’t have a reason, in my opinion.” Whales, dolphins, fish, birds, seals, and other marine life depend on the sanctuary to survive. No evidence exists that the creation of the conservation area of Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument has hurt commercial fishing in New England.