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June 5, 2020President Trump vowed Friday to open the nation’s only national monumentin the Atlantic Ocean to commercial fishing, saying he was giving Maineback part of its history and the fishermen their industry.He signed a proclamation declaring the opening after attending a roundtablediscussion with commercial fishermen in Bangor, Maine, that included awide-ranging conversation about unwanted regulations and tariffs on theseafood trade.“We’re opening it today,” Trump said. To the fishermen, he added: “We’regonna solve your fishing problem....Basically, they took away your livelihood.It’s ridiculous.”Trump’s move to open fishing in the Northeastern Canyons and SeamountsMarine National Monument will surely open a new front in the ongoing legalbattle over the limits of presidential powers regarding national monuments.Native American tribes and environmental groups are already challengingadministration efforts to reduce the size of two monuments in Utah.In this case, as some who attended the Maine meeting pointed out, thepresident is not seeking to change the marine monument’s boundaries. Environmentalgroups nonetheless immediately vowed to sue the Trump administration.“A significant change to the monument or its protections—such as allowingcommercial fishing—must be done by Congress, not by the president,” BradSewell, senior director of Oceans for the Natural Resources Defense Councilsaid in a statement. “The Antiquities Act gives the president power toprotect special areas for future generations, not the opposite power, toabolish those protections.”He added: “We are prepared to sue the Trump administration.”Enric Sala, a marine biologistYou are going to nationalgeographic.com/tv and different terms of useand privacy policy will apply.Copyright © 1996-2015 National Geographic Society.Copyright © 2015-2022 National Geographic Partners, LLC. All rights reservedforfull access to read stories from National Geographic.

June 5, 2020President Trump vowed Friday to open the nation’s only national monumentin the Atlantic Ocean to commercial fishing, saying he was giving Maineback part of its history and the fishermen their industry.He signed a proclamation declaring the opening after attending a roundtablediscussion with commercial fishermen in Bangor, Maine, that included awide-ranging conversation about unwanted regulations and tariffs on theseafood trade.“We’re opening it today,” Trump said. To the fishermen, he added: “We’regonna solve your fishing problem....Basically, they took away your livelihood.It’s...

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