Commercial fishing in a vast Pacific nature area is halted after a judge blocks a Trump order
Source: AP
Updated 4:55 PM EDT, August 9, 2025
HONOLULU (AP) Commercial fishing that recently resumed in a vast protected area of the Pacific Ocean must halt once again, after a judge in Hawaii sided this week with environmentalists challenging a Trump administration rollback of federal ocean protections.
The remote Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument is home to turtles, marine mammals and seabirds, which environmental groups say will get snagged by longline fishing, an industrial method involving baited hooks from lines 60 miles (about 100 kilometers) or longer.
President Donald Trumps executive order to allow this and other types of commercial fishing in part of the monument changed regulations without providing a process for public comment and rulemaking and stripped core protections from the monument, the groups argued in a lawsuit.
U.S. District Judge Micah W. J. Smith granted a motion by the environmentalists on Friday. The ruling means boats catching fish for sale will need to immediately cease fishing in waters between 50 and 200 nautical miles (93 kilometers to 370 kilometers) around Johnston Atoll, Jarvis Island and Wake Island, said Earthjustice, an environmental law organization representing the plaintiffs.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/trump-fishing-pacific-islands-4202a5a746b7d6a1dd4e76cd41dd7297
Link to ORDER (PDF) - https://t.co/Efjmvv08E9

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BumRushDaShow
(159,145 posts)Believe it or not, Politico's Kyle Cheney X'd about it -
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OVERNIGHT: A federal judge in Hawaii has blocked the Trump administration from authorizing commercial fishing in a national monument area designated by George W. Bush and expanded by Barack Obama.
The Trump admin blew off public input, judge ruled.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.hid.173877/gov.uscourts.hid.173877.36.0.pdf
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4:50 AM · Aug 9, 2025

But few if any (including Politico itself), picked it up. AP finally woke up, took time to yawn and stretch, before finally reporting it... because you know, 45's "wins" are more important "news" than his many "losses".

pfitz59
(11,790 posts)are nursery and recovery zones. Allowing the oceans to replenish from over-fishing. Trump and his goons reject science. So fuck them.
BumRushDaShow
(159,145 posts)to try to replenish the near complete depletion of oysters due to over-harvesting and fertilizer runoff, along with other pollutants, and it is slowly recovering.
OldBaldy1701E
(8,885 posts)Is anyone out there making sure that they are not still doing it?
Is anyone out there making sure that the orange gibbon is not just telling them to ignore it?
I hope so.
republianmushroom
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(12,394 posts)mahina
(20,026 posts)Aloha ke Akua.