Source: abc News
Environmental leaders from the NRDC are fighting to preserve a marine monument established by Obama in September of 2016, that includes the protection of unique marine ecosystems in the Atlantic Ocean.
Leaders of the organization want to stop a federal lawsuit that challenges the creation of the 5,000 square foot monument, The Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, that currently protects the area of rare corals and an endangered species of whales against fishing.
The monument is the first of its kind to protect a unique ecosystem in the Atlantic Ocean, but commercial fishing groups represented by the Pacific Legal Foundation want to change that to remove the no-fishing barriers.
The attorney representing the group argues that monument designations in the ocean are huge and “undermine the ability to sustainably regulate fisheries. It forces fishermen to concentrate in the areas that are left.”
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