Presidential Executive Order Donald Trump to enhance the commercial fishing industry attracted the praise of commercial fishing groups and condemnation by environmental organizations, which said they were afraid that the rules of reduction would harm the fish population that has already declined in some areas of the oceans.
The order is a sharp shift in the federal fisherman’s fisheries policy, prioritizing commercial fishing interests about effort to allow fish supply to increase.
Presidentcalled his decision “simple” that will improve the USCommercial fishingThe industry, opening the rules back and opening the crop in previously protected areas.
“The United States must be a dominant leader of seafood in the world,” he said on Thursday, citing a deficit of the country’s seafood, which is more than $ 20 billion.
Some environmental groups referred to the importance of the Magnus-Styven Fisheries Law on Fisheries Management, which managed the US fishing for almost 50 years and was intended to combat fracture. The number of fish reserves in the federal list increased from 40 in 2013 to 47 in 2023; Environmentalists said they were afraid that the number would rise with weakened rules.
“These executive orders do not weaken the cornflower – they solve the security network itself, which protects our ocean, our economy and our seafood dinners,” said Beth Lowell, Vice -President of Oceana, Group. “For decades, an American scientific approach to fishing management has restored a decrease in shares, supported American fishermen on the water and guarded important places and wildlife.”
Some sectors of the fishing industry were severely affectedShrimp MengandAtlantic codLong ago dried up. Types of the west coast, including some speciessalmonwere also exhausted.
Were alsosuccess. The federal government said last year it was able to remove the Atlantic Coast Blue and the Washington coast coast Coho Salmon from the list.
Fishermen said they see a bright future thanks to Trump’s executive orders. Changes are a “thoughtful, strategic approach” that can become a savior of fishermen in America, said Lisa Valdnda Picard, president and chief executive of the National Fisheries Institute in Virginia.
“EO outlines key actions that benefit every connection in the supply chain – from hard -working fishermen to parents who serve their family this nourishing and sustainable protein at home,” Walland Picard said. “It is important to note that the order requires a reduction in unnecessary regulatory loads on fishermen and seafood producers, as well as contributing to many advantages of seafood within a healthy, balanced diet.”
Trump’s order came on the same day when he made a announcement that allowed commercial fishing in the National Monument “Remained Islands”. The monument was created by President George Bush in early 2009 and consists of about 495 189 square miles (1.282,534 kilometers) in the Central Pacific.
Environmental groups, some of which promised to dispute attempts to weaken the protection in certain areas, also criticized this step.
“This is one of the most intact tropical maritime conditions in the world, which is already facing terrible threats from climate change and frying the ocean,” said David Henkin, the Group Group Earthjustice lawyer. “We will do our best to protect the monument.”
The Trump administration, counteracting environmental groups, claims that restrictions such as a catch restriction and competition with windmills for fishing platforms were restrained by one of the oldest enterprises of the country.
“In addition to override, unfair trade practices have put our seafood markets in a competitive shortage,” Trump’s executive order said.
The order provides the secretary of the Howard Lutnik trade a month to determine “the most strongly rethinking fishing that requires action, and take appropriate measures to reduce the normative load on them.” It also urges regional fishing executives to find ways to reduce the load on internal fishing and increase fishing production.
The order also requires the development of a comprehensive seafood strategy. He charges the lutnik in the consideration of the existing marine monuments under the water of the protected areas, and providing the recommendations of anyone that should be open to commercial fishing. Trump also aimed at sea monuments inits first term.
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Patrick Whittle, The Associated Press
