Zoe Nguyen- Loss of Federal Protections May Imperil Pacific Reefs, Scientists Warn

Loss of Federal Protections May Imperil Pacific Reefs,

Scientists Warn

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/science/trump-zinke-pacific-marine-reserves.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience&action=click&contentCollection=science&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0  

“It was a biological desert,” he said. Where normally fish and crabs dart about forests of coral and sponges, “all we could can see was a parking lot full of nets and lines, with no life at all.” The recently allowed fishing in protected seamounts is destroying the delicate ecosystem. The Trump administration is considering allowing fishing in 10 national sea monuments. Personally, I believe that people shouldn’t be fishing in these monuments because there are so many species that are being protected by my the government by not allowing people to fish there. Now, that the Trump administration is considering allowing people to fish there is going to destroy the seamounts.

This relates to conservation becoming one of Theodore Roosevelt’s main concerns. He made it so that many areas that had landscapes and wildlife were protected under the government and established many national monuments and parks.