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Trump administration mulls cutting US fisheries staff by 50%, reports CBC

'The US has the strongest science enterprise in the world and these people are throwing it away' -- Andrew Rosenberg, former deputy director of NOAA Fisheries

By Undercurrent News | Feb. 19, 2025 14:42 GMT
US president Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Arizona in 2024. Photograph by Gage Skidmore on Wikimedia.
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