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Speaker 1: The area is called the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine

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Speaker 1: National Monument.

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Speaker 2: The monument just has this incredible diversity of species.

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Speaker 1: President Trump has issued a proclamation lifting a ban on

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Speaker 1: commercial fishing there, but doctor Jessica Redfern with the Anderson

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Speaker 1: Cabot Center for Ocean Life at the New England Aquarium

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Speaker 1: says that could wreak havoc on the monument's diverse wildlife.

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Speaker 2: Setting places aside so that they're completely protected from all

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Speaker 2: of human use is part of a strategy of responsible

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Speaker 2: ocean use right where you have areas that are commercially fished,

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Speaker 2: and you have some areas that are seting side because

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Speaker 2: they are unique.

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Speaker 1: The area was first designated a monument under President Obama,

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Speaker 1: then protectors were rolled back during the first Trump administration

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Speaker 1: and reinstated under President Biden. President Trump and some commercial

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Speaker 1: fishing groups argue that protection is only handcuff the fishing industry.

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Speaker 1: Jeremy Russ WBZ, Boston's news radio