Michael Bastach
Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke recommended President Donald
Trump change the boundaries or management of 10 national monuments,
including ocean monuments created by the Obama administration. Zinke asked
Trump to allow commercial fishing at Obama-designated ocean monuments
in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, but five of those monuments the
Department of the Interior reviewed could be declared unlawful. Earlier this year, the Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) filed suit
against the Trump administration on behalf of New England fisherman
opposed to the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts monument off the New
England coast. PLF’s lawsuit doesn’t just argue against the offshore monument’s
prohibition against fishing and crabbing above 3.1 million acres of
underwater canyons, the group has also claimed the Antiquities Act is
limited to creating national monuments on federally-controlled “lands,”
not waters. Should PLF prevail, the Atlantic Ocean monument would be void...more
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