The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument (PRIMNM) was established by Proclamation 8336 of January 6, 2009 (Establishment of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument), and then ...

Environmentalists say the Trump administration needs to hear input from the public on any moves to open up marine national monuments to commercial fishing. In a letter signed by more than 230 ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday issued a proclamation saying he is easing federal restrictions on commercial fishing in a vast protected area of the central Pacific known as the Pacific Islands ...

President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, N.J., Friday, May 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) HONOLULU — Environmentalists are challenging ...

HONOLULU — Commercial fishing that recently resumed in a vast protected area of the Pacific Ocean must halt once again, after a judge in Hawaii sided this week with environmentalists challenging a ...

Kitty Simonds, far right, executive director of the Honolulu­-based Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council, was in the Oval Office on Thursday as President Donald Trump signed an ...

President Donald Trump in April decided to allow commercial fishing in parts of the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument area, and his move is being challenged in federal court in Hawaii.