COURTHOUSE NEWS SERVICE • June 5, 2020
President Donald Trump on Friday opened 5,000 square miles of ocean off the New England coast to commercial fishing, reversing an order signed by President Barack Obama shortly before he left office. “I’m a believer in conservation, but they’ve gone crazy,” he said before an audience of Maine lobstermen, fishermen and crabbers. Trump vowed to lift other Obama-era regulations that restrict Maine fishermen. He separately vowed to fight foreign tariffs that hurt the Maine seafood industry.