Washington, April 18, 2025 (AFP) - Trump allows commercial fishing in vast Pacific reserve

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2025-04-18
Commercial fishing will be allowed in a gigantic marine reserve home to one of the world's most vulnerable ecosystems in the middle of the Pacific under an executive order signed Thursday by President Donald Trump. The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument (PRIMNM) was created in 2009 by then-president George W. Bush, and extended by his successor Barack Obama in 2014. Today it covers almost 1.3 million square kilometers (500,000 square......
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