U.S. President Donald Trump issued a proclamation on Feb. 6 to open the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, a marine protected area off the northeastern U.S., to commercial ...

He issued a proclamation last week allowing for commercial fishing in the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument. This monument consists of a nearly 5,000 square mile area southeast ...

President Trump is once again opening up a marine national monument in the Atlantic Ocean to commercial fishing. Late Friday afternoon, he issued a proclamation allowing for commercial fishing in the ...

BOSTON (SHNS) – President Donald Trump has reopened a long-running fight over ocean conservation and fishing rights, ordering commercial fleets back into federally protected waters off New England and ...

The administration has argued the U.S. fishing industry is hampered by overregulation compared with foreign competitors. President Donald Trump revoked a ban Friday on commercial fishing inside a ...

Provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, this image was made during the Northeast U.S. Canyons Expedition 2013. It shows corals on Mytilus Seamount off the coast of New England ...

President Donald Trump signed a proclamation on Friday reinstating commercial fishing in protected Atlantic waters, in a move that reversed Obama-era restriction and which he described as “another BIG ...

President Donald Trump said he issued a presidential proclamation reopening thousands of square miles of protected Atlantic Ocean waters off New England to commercial fishing, saying the move would ...

Corals on Mytilus Seamount off the coast of New England in the North Atlantic Ocean. (NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research via AP) PORTLAND — President Donald Trump issued a proclamation on ...

Off the coast of Cape Cod, the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument is a unique stretch of ocean that had been protected for a decade. By Maxine Joselow Reporting from Washington ...

President Donald Trump issued a proclamation on Friday reopening a huge swath of protected sea in the Atlantic Ocean to commercial fishing. Trump said the move would reestablish fishing in Northeast ...