The Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument is now officially open to commercial fishing. The National ...

NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has officially rescinded the regulations that prohibited commercial fishing ...

A recent meeting of the intergovernmental body that manages fisheries in the North Pacific Ocean failed to confer new protections for the Emperor Seamount Chain, a massive and richly biodiverse set of ...

"By reopening the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts to commercial fishing, fairness, transparency, and science-based governance has been restored to the affected fisheries." -- Bob Vanasse, Executive ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — 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 ...

Over the course of my career, I have had the great fortune to bear witness to the grandeur of the 4,901 square miles of the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument off the coast of ...

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 ...