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Trump lifts commercial fishing ban in protected area

In an announcement cheered by the fishing industry and described as an "attack on our ocean" by opponents, President Donald Trump on Friday reversed a four-year-old decision by President Barack Obama that had abruptly ended commercial fishing within a 5,000-square mile area of the Atlantic Ocean deemed a national marine monument.Trump's new proclamation will not alter the boundaries of the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, which is the size of Connecticut, [...]

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