NOAA’s New Priorities Put Profits Ahead of Marine Protections
via fisheries.noaa.gov
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The agency directed the nation’s regional fisheries councils to scrap certain marine protected areas, remove species from conservation lists and expand commercial fishing operations. By Johnny Sturgeon In the Western Pacific, protections for endangered leatherback turtles face elimination. In Alaskan waters, Steller sea lion sanctuaries could soon shrink. And in the North Atlantic, gear designed […]