Published: Thursday, December 10, 2020
Seamounts Marine National Monument collage. Credits: Claudine Hellmuth/E&E News(illustration & map); U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service(photos); U.S. Supreme Court(text)
Commercial fishing groups have been fighting the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument since it was first proposed by the Obama administration. The Supreme Court may be their last hope. Claudine Hellmuth/E&E News(illustration & map); U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service(photos); U.S. Supreme Court(text)
When Grant Moore first started lobstering, he thought of the ocean as a vast expanse with an endless supply of marine life ripe for the catching.