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Archive: July 2025 Blog Posts

  • Shrinking Oceanic Protections and the Expansion of Commercial Fishing Freedoms
  • July 2nd, 2025 — by Taylor Young — Category: Environmental Law

  • In 2009, President George W. Bush created three marine national monuments conserving and protecting over 195,000 square miles. These designations created environmental safeguards by prohibiting commercial fishing and the extraction of natural resources within the area.


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