Loss of Federal Protection Would Put Pacific Reefs in Peril

[Sea Save Foundation]

The Trump administration is recommending that two protected Pacific reefs—the Pacific Remote Islands National Marine Monument and the Rose Atoll National Marine Monument—be opened to fishing. But Pacific reefs may be in peril without federal protection from fishing. A recent survey of four Pacific seamounts, one in the Papahanaumokuakea National Monument off Hawaii, found that trawling had left a dead zone in its wake. "The devastation...was shocking," reports deep-sea submarine pilot Terry Kerby.

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