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We Must Protect Our Oceans’ Golden Geese
- In late May 2025, environmental organizations filed a federal lawsuit in Honolulu seeking to block new commercial fishing activities within the protected marine area surrounding the central Pacific islands.
- The lawsuit responds to President Trump's April 17, 2025 executive order that lifted long-standing fishing bans and opened about 500,000 square miles of protected central Pacific waters to industrial fishing.
- Created by President Bush in 2009 and expanded by Obama in 2014, the monument protects a unique ocean ecosystem with scientific, historical, and cultural significance to Native Hawaiian plaintiffs.
- Industrial longline fishing uses lines 60 miles or longer with baited hooks that often unintentionally catch turtles, marine mammals, and seabirds, a threat tracked by Earthjustice through vessel monitoring data.
- The suit argues Trump exceeded his authority, bypassed public input, and risks harm to marine biodiversity and indigenous cultural interests, indicating ongoing legal challenges over the monument's protections.
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We must protect our oceans’ golden geese
Preserving marine sanctuaries and monuments is critical to keeping our fish stocks healthy.
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Environmentalists' lawsuit challenges Trump's order to allow commercial fishing in Pacific monument
Environmentalists are challenging in court President Donald Trump’s executive order that they say strips core protections from the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument and opens the area to harmful commercial fishing.
·United States
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Conservation Groups Sue To Block Commercial Fishing In Pacific Monument The fishing has resumed in the deep ocean waters that were designated off-limits over a decade ago.
Conservation Groups Sue To Block Commercial Fishing In Pacific Monument The post Conservation Groups Sue To Block Commercial Fishing In Pacific Monument The fishing has resumed in the deep ocean waters that were designated off-limits over a decade ago. appeared first on Howzit Kohala.
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