POLITICSTHE HILL
Trump opens up Pacific marine national monuments to commercial fishing
President Trump opened previously protected areas of the Pacific Ocean to commercial fishing, affecting three marine national monuments around the northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa, covering nearly half a million square miles.
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