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According to a White House spokesperson, U.S. president Donald Trump will issue on Friday a proclamation to restore commercial fishing access to the marine national monument located off New England.
The proclamation will reopen the nearly 5,000-square-mile (13,000-square-kilometer) Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, which was designated by former President Barack Obama in 2016 to protect species including deep-sea corals, sea turtles and whales.
Former President Joe Biden reversed the decision in 2021.
Officials at the White House said that this decision is in support of fishing communities and economic activity, as well as jobs.
New England Aquarium conducted a recent aerial survey on the monument, with the support of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service found 600 animals including a bottlenose dolphin calf and a humpback calf, according to a Facebook post on Friday. (Reporting and editing by Nichola Douglas, Jeff Mason, and Leah Douglas)
(source: Reuters)
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