As the United States grapples with how to address the impacts of the climate and biodiversity crises, policymakers should consider ways in which they can ensure the protection of ocean ecosystems and wildlife. The Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, which then-President Barack Obama established in 2016 in recognition of the area’s impressive biodiversity and “objects of historic or scientific interest,” is the only marine national monument in the continental United States. Located about 130 miles southeast of Cape Cod, it protects three deep-sea canyons and four underwater mountains, and it teems with wildlife whales, dolphins, sea birds, turtles, sharks and rays, octopuses and squids, fish, cold-water corals, and sea stars and sponges, all of which are provided refuge to feed and reproduce relatively free from human interference.
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The mayors of the state s two most lucrative commercial fishing ports are criticizing the Commerce Department s most recent appointment to the Massachusetts obligatory seat on the New England Fishery Management Council albeit for different reasons.
Gloucester Mayor Sefatia Romeo Theken on Tuesday said the June 28 decision to appoint recreational fishing stakeholder Michael J. Pierdinock of Plymouth instead of Northeast Seafood Coalition Executive Director Jackie Odell was a serious oversight which has not gone unnoticed by commercial fishing stakeholders. Not often do candidates apply who have this level of experience, qualifications and high level of regard by all, Romeo Theken said of Odell. I m upset that people who truly represent the commercial fishing industry, those who fish all year to supplement the food chain, never are truly represented.