Earlier this month, President Trump signed a proclamation allowing commercial fishing in three national marine monuments in the Pacific, spanning a total of half a million square miles.
The administration is working to dismantle guardrails for industrial fishing, while also threatening critical marine ecosystems that are sacred to Indigenous Pacific peoples.
Here & Now’s Peter O’Dowd is joined by Grist senior staff writer Anita Hofschneider to discuss the implications of this “America First” fishing strategy.
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