The Trump administration is opening a national marine monument to commercial fishing, it announced Thursday. The White House issued an executive order that allows for commercial fishing within the ...

The order effectively ends commercial fishing prohibitions in the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument, a coral-rich section of the Pacific roughly halfway between Hawaii and American ...

The Pacific Island Heritage National Marine Monument, about 750 miles west of Hawaii, is dotted by coral reefs and atolls, with species of fish, marine mammals and birds rarely found anywhere else.

The Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument was created by President George W. Bush in 2009 and expanded by President Barack Obama in 2014. It includes seven national wildlife refuges ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order Thursday overturning an Obama-era ban on commercial fishing in the nearly 500, 000-square-mile Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument ...

The president also ordered a review of all marine national monuments. President Donald Trump opened a vast national monument in the Pacific Ocean to commercial fishing Thursday and indicated he ...