All of them, and more, would be required to meet a U.N.-sponsored Sustainable Development Goal to protect 10 per cent of the world’s oceans by 2020.
Indeed, at the conference, preserve proponents declared that at least 600 new protected ocean areas would be needed to come half-way close to that goal—and that a better objective might be 30 per cent or even 40 percent of the world’s oceans.
agenda21 ping
Will it be closed to foreign fishermen?
Destroying yet another American industry
Another Obama disgrace to undo.
Obunghole doesn’t want anybody to do anything in this country. Just sit there, shut up, and collect your welfare check. FUBO.
Overfishing is a serious problem. It is difficult to solve when international waters suffer from the Tragedy of the Commons. We stop, no one else does. I don’t know the answer.
While I believe Obama’s action on this is illegal because it hasn’t been passed by Congress, there is some validity to having no fishing areas interspersed throughout heavily fished areas. This allows for safe, undisturbed breeding grounds for fish and other animals to prosper and multiply. The surplus population in these areas spills out into the fishing grounds. At the end of the day a 70x70 mile area is not all that big.
This is a policy that needs to be debated and decided upon in Congress and signed by the president into law as a comprehensive plan, not as a political stunt by a d-bag like Obama.
Why?
They can rope off all they want but they can't protect fishies from other fishies. Do these idiots realize how many fish exist in the oceans? It is an amazing renewable resource and no matter how many fish are taken by man the fish will come back. That doesn't mean there should not be management and restrictions at times
Democrats no longer need blue collar voters. They’ve successfully transfered enough Americans over to the welfare rolls that they can do whatever they want to destroy industry and slackers will cheer.
He is also grabbing 87,000 acres in Maine formerly owned by a relative of the founder of Bert’s Bees. Apparently it takes an Act of Congress to undo a Monument designation. But, it has been done before.
They can kick the Stonewall Gay Bar National Monument status to the curb at the same time. That put a gay beer joint in the same revered category as the Grand Canyon. The Grand Junction Colorado Mesa, The Lincoln Memorial, and the Washington Monument.
"Quit crabbing: Obama creates major no-go zone for fishermen in the Atlantic"
You would never know from some of these article titles that the USA actually has a federal Congress.
Patriots, please don’t forget that the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress has the constitutional authority to override anything that Obama does (1.7.2), but stubbornly refuses to exercise that power.
Remember in November !
Patriots need to support Trump / Pence by also electing a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to support Trump’s vision for making America great again for everybody, including crab fishermen.
Note that such a Congress will also probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
“..causing discomfort among some prominent Democratic politicians whose constituents are affected.”
Nothing like pissing off voters before the election.
You just wonder in awe of how much destruction this man can and will do for us in the next 100 days.
certainly there won’t be any declaration that would stop the installation of green windmills off the coast of Massachusetts.