Fishermen Fight to Keep Atlantic Monument Waters Open in Federal Court

Two New England commercial fishermen have asked a federal court to let them join the defense of the Trump administration's decision to lift a fishing ban across 5,000 square miles of Atlantic Ocean, arguing the ban was illegal from the start and should never be reinstated.
Frank Green, a Long Island tilefish fisherman, and Robert Conrad of Vermont, who trawls for whiting, squid, butterfish, and mackerel, filed a motion to intervene as defendants on July 31 in Conservation Law Foundation v. Trump in the US District Court for the...
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