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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Jennifer Sinco Kelleher and Audrey McAvoy

Commercial fishing in a vast Pacific nature area is halted after a judge blocks a Trump order

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Commercial fishing that recently resumed in a vast protected area of the Pacific Ocean must halt once again, after a judge in Hawaii sided this week with environmentalists challenging a Trump administration rollback of federal ocean protections.

The remote Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument is home to turtles, marine mammals and seabirds, which environmental groups say will get snagged by longline fishing, an industrial method involving baited hooks from lines 60 miles (about 100 kilometers) or longer.

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