An April 17 executive order from the White House allows commercial fishing to resume in the waters near the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE.

After encouraging gains in the 1990s, populations of loggerhead sea turtles are now dropping in the United States, primarily as a result of commercial fishing. AP file Photo WASHINGTON — After ...

HONOLULU (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

HONOLULU— Kāpaʻa, the Conservation Council for Hawai‘i and the Center for Biological Diversity, represented by Earthjustice, filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration today challenging its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On April 17, President Donald Trump signed a proclamation opening the waters of the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National ...

President Donald Trump participates in a trilateral signing ceremony with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev in the State Dining Room of the White House, ...

On April 17, President Donald Trump signed a proclamation opening the waters of the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument to U.S. commercial fishing. According to a fact sheet regarding ...