Trump Signs Proclamation Opening Nearly Half a Million Square Miles of Pacific Ocean to Commercial Fishing President Donald ...

President Trump is signing a proclamation to restore commercial fishing within three marine monuments in the Pacific Ocean.

A June 2026 executive proclamation reopened additional commercial fishing grounds in Pacific marine national monuments. The ...

The president has now signed orders to eliminate commercial fishing bans in all five national marine monuments.

President Donald Trump signed a proclamation that would allow commercial fishing in several Pacific Ocean marine monuments that environmentalists say would threaten the critical habitat of several ...

A new study by marine biologists reports that seals can essentially act as 'smart sensors' for monitoring fish populations in the ocean's eerily dim 'twilight zone.' Over the past 60 years, marine ...

The open ocean’s twilight zone, a vast deep ecosystem rich in fish biomass, is poorly understood because it is expensive and challenging for humans to reach its depths 200–1000 meters (660–3,280 feet) ...

For more than 20 years, fisheries managers set Chinook salmon recovery goals, closed fishing seasons, and rationed some ...

President Trump on Thursday opened up previously protected areas of the Pacific Ocean to commercial fishing. Trump signed a proclamation opening up commercial fishing at three marine national ...

Mesopelagic fish are integral to ocean food webs and play an important role in carbon transport through their vertical migration behavior. Ocean deoxygenation caused by anthropogenic warming is ...

Over the past 60 years, marine biologists at UC Santa Cruz have monitored the behavior of northern elephant seals that journey to nearby Año Nuevo Natural Reserve. With the seals gathering on the ...