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- Apr 17, 202590% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
Trump Opens the Pacific Remote Islands Marine Monument to Commercial Fishing
- The monument, created in 2009 and expanded in 2014, covers over 400,000 square miles around Wake, Baker, Howland and Jarvis Islands, Johnston and Palmyra Atolls and Kingman Reef, where commercial fishing had been prohibited[1]
- The proclamation finds that managed commercial fishing would not put the monument's objects at risk, noting that tunas and other pelagic species are migratory[1]
- It says the ban shut US fleets out of nearly half of the US exclusive economic zone in the Pacific Islands, and that American Samoa's private economy is over 80% dependent on fishing[1]
- It rewrites the 2014 expansion's management language so that fishing there is managed by Commerce under the Magnuson-Stevens Act[1]; a later proclamation describes it as providing that the Secretary of Commerce shall not prohibit commercial fishing in specified monument and expansion areas[2]
- NMFS told fishermen on 25 April 2025 that fishing 50-200 nautical miles around Johnston, Jarvis and Wake was open; a federal court voided that letter on 8 August 2025[3]
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- [1]90%federalregister.gov/documents/2025/04/22/2025-07060/unleashing-american-commercial-fishing-in-the-pacificfederalregister.gov· Posted Sep 27, 2026· Starts Apr 17, 2025 ✓· 53% of score
The Federal Register[2] prints it as 'Proclamation 10918 of April 17, 2025, Unleashing American Commercial Fishing in the Pacific'.
- [2]72%Proclamation 11035: Restoring American Commercial Fishing in the Pacific (Federal Register)federalregister.gov· Published Jun 17, 2026· 36% of score
Summarises Proclamation 10918 as 'providing ... that the Secretary of Commerce shall not prohibit commercial fishing within specified Monument and Monument Expansion areas', and extends the opening to three more monuments.[1]
- [3]80%Commercial fishing halted in Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument upon US District Court ruling (Maui Now)mauinow.com· Published Aug 11, 2025· 11% of score
What followed: NMFS's 25 April letter authorised fishing between 50 and 200 nautical miles around Johnston Atoll, Jarvis Island and Wake Island, and a federal judge nullified it on 8 August 2025.[1]
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