Trump ends Obama-era restrictions on commercial fishing in protected area off New England

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: PBS News/AP

Feb 6, 2026 6:08 PM EST


PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — President Donald Trump issued a proclamation on Friday reopening a huge swath of protected sea in the Atlantic Ocean to commercial fishing.

Trump said the move would reestablish fishing in Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument off the New England coast, a nearly 5,000-square-mile preserve east of Cape Cod that was created by former President Barack Obama. Trump rolled back protections in the area in 2020 and President Joe Biden later restored them.

Trump's proclamation is his latest move to try to strengthen U.S. fishing while rolling back existing conservation measures. He signed a broader order earlier this year that calls on the federal government to reduce the regulatory burden on fishermen in the coming weeks.

Trump has long been critical of the marine monument, which Obama described at the time as a chance to protect vulnerable undersea corals and ecosystems. Trump has described it as an unfair penalty on commercial fishermen.

Read more: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/trump-ends-obama-era-restrictions-on-commercial-fishing-in-protected-area-off-new-england

[Botany]

1. Those protected areas insure future fishing will have fish and the National Monument that Obama protected

…. Is critical for the Sperm Whale too. Trump is an idiot.

[travelingthrulife]

4. Anything he can do to take our eyes off the Trump-Epstein Sex trafficking files

and the disaster of ICE.

Claims of kids being murdered by these oligarch thugs might even turn the pro-life crowd's heads. Just kidding. They will just say they deserved it for being sex workers and they are just women and kids and we can do whatever we want to the chattel.

[twodogsbarking]

2. Until there ain't no fish no more.

[travelingthrulife]

3. Every good thing we have the monster is ripping away from us.

[cstanleytech]

5. And when the fish are all gone the people working those jobs will be out of work permanently.

[BidenRocks]

6. Study the history of the Cod.

From so many you could walk on them to crashed.

Yellow perch was a Friday favorite. Crashed.

No care for the future!

I dislike us.

Soylent Green!

[Martin68]

7. Dump is desperate for votes. Who knew fishermen were a target demographic?

[BumRushDaShow]

8. Problem is

he was aiming for the Maine GOP-supporters but the area he targeted is NOT outside of Maine but Massachusetts.

[Martin68]

9. Exactly. He doesn't have a clue. Or is it an advisor who suggested this? Who is in charge?

[BumRushDaShow]

10. It was more along the lines of wanton repealing anything that Biden and Obama put in place

regardless of whether it would negatively impact 45's own base.