@farmerman,
Trump, in a statement that followed his reopening the seamount territories, called himself "an environmentalist". Thats true is he defines environmentalist as someone who favors mindless pillaging of environmental RESOURCES by clearly disastrous harvsting just like whaling od the late 19th century or hunting passenger pigeons to extinction and bison to near extinction before we wised up.
Trump gets into his wayback machine to see what damages he can muster by openly restoring industrially ignorant environmental regs. He will assure that closely guarded species , like cod, pollock, halibut, tuna , striped bass, species with tremendous market futures if managed properly, will , instead b possibly GONE.
Our president likes to further kill off a larger percentage of breeding stock of these target fish species (moving them from decimation to extinction since TRUMPS new regs apparently do NOT include any research into determining whats a sustainable population ).
What he is clueless about is that managed recovery by closure of breeding areas is a good BUSINESS decision . Opening to "Gold rush fishing" will have disastrous effects as witnessed based upon what happened to cod stocks in the recent past.
CLUELESS DON, or is he? I wonder if hes dabbled into investing in market fisheries for the Trump family.