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BumRushDaShow

(159,145 posts)
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 03:19 AM Aug 10

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 Trump’s 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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Commercial fishing in a vast Pacific nature area is halted after a judge blocks a Trump order (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Aug 10 OP
This is freaking GREAT NEWS AZJonnie Aug 10 #1
And it was "buried news" BumRushDaShow Aug 10 #2
Most 'protected' marine areas pfitz59 Aug 10 #5
IIRC, they have been trying to do that with the Chesapeake Bay BumRushDaShow Aug 10 #6
Yeah. OldBaldy1701E Aug 10 #3
Thank you, Judge Smith. republianmushroom Aug 10 #4
K & R nt berniesandersmittens Aug 10 #7
Thank God in heaven. mahina Aug 10 #8

BumRushDaShow

(159,145 posts)
2. And it was "buried news"
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 06:04 AM
Aug 10

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)
5. Most 'protected' marine areas
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 01:50 PM
Aug 10

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)
6. IIRC, they have been trying to do that with the Chesapeake Bay
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 03:40 PM
Aug 10

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)
3. Yeah.
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 07:16 AM
Aug 10

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.

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