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Tuna, swordfish longliners benefit most from Trump’s Atlantic monument change

'It's the total definition of over-regulation right there' -- Marty Scanlon, Blue Water Fishermen's Association, on earlier Obama designation

By Jason Huffman | June 5, 2020 21:08 BST
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US president Donald Trump on Friday issued proclamation 9496, reversing part of former president Barack Obama's 2016 order to designate a nearly 5,000 square mile section of the Atlantic Ocean as a national monument, re-opening the area to commercial fishing [...]

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