Bloomberg (September 22)
2017/ 09/ 24 by jd in Global News
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s “preliminary recommendation is to let commercial fishing resume in the Pacific Remote Islands and in the nearby Rose Atoll Marine National Monument. Yet commercial tuna fishing is precisely what put these ecosystems under pressure. To thrive, the creatures need to be undisturbed, and this protection has to extend far enough to allow them to roam…. The Trump administration is wrong to be contemplating this backward step.”
Tags: Commercial fishing, Ecosystems, Pacific Remote Islands, Recommendation, Rose Atoll Marine National Monument, Trump, Tuna, Undisturbed, Wrong, Zinke
