"A federal court Friday upheld the massive national monument former President Obama created off of the New England coast in the Atlantic Ocean.

In a blow to commercial fishing and other industries who felt the protections afforded by the monument significantly impede their businesses, Judge James Boasberg ruled that the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument complied with the law.

The case, Massachusetts Lobstermen’s Association v. Wilbur Ross, centered on arguments that the 1906 Antiquities Act does not allow presidents to protect bodies of water, that the government doesn’t have sufficient control of water many miles offshore and that the nearly 5,000-square-mile monument was too large."

Timothy Cama reports for The Hill October 5, 2018. [2]