Save Our Marine Monuments

The Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument is home to an extraordinary array of marine species. But the Trump administration is trying to strip it of its core protections.

The Trump administration has abolished this marine monument’s core protection. We are suing to restore the ban on commercial fishing in the monument so that these fragile ocean ecosystems will continue to be safe from industrial exploitation and be preserved for generations to come.

Teeming with ancient coral, marine mammals, seabirds, and undiscovered species, the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument is no place for commercial fishing.

The decision is a major victory for the first and only monument in the Atlantic Ocean—and for all U.S. marine monuments.

It’s been an eventful two years for the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts, the only marine national monument off the continental United States.

NRDC is fighting with every tool at its disposal to protect the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument and its marine mammals.

With our partners, NRDC is working to protect the first and only national monument in the Atlantic Ocean from attacks by industry and the Trump administration.

After years of work by NRDC and its partners, about 5,000 square miles of ocean—with massive canyons, majestic underwater mountains, and more than 1,000 species—have received permanent protection.

Imagine dynamite going off in your neighborhood every 10 seconds. Now imagine you can’t leave. That’s how marine life experience offshore oil and gas exploration.