President to create world's largest ocean reserve......

nhboy

Ubi bene ibi patria
Source.

"Barack Obama will use his presidential powers on Thursday to create the world’s largest marine reserve in the Pacific, banning fishing and other commercial activities across vast swaths of pristine sea populated by whales, dolphins and sea turtles and dotted with coral atolls.

Thursday’s proclamation will expand the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument reserve, created by George Bush, to about six times its current size.

It will ban commercial fishing and deep sea mining in about 490,000 square miles around remote tropical atolls and islands in the south-central Pacific Ocean, a White House fact sheet said. Other vast swathes of the Pacific will also come under protection on Thursday, with the tiny island state of Kiribati due to announce that it will ban commercial fishing in one of the last great tuna grounds left in the world. Kiribati’s no-take zone, around the Phoenix Islands protected area, will cover about 158,000 sq m, about the size of California. It comes into effect in January 2015.
 

b23hqb

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PREMO Member
Would that "ocean preserve" be between the space of his two Dumbo ears? I know that is an area larger than the 75% of the worlds surface, but still.....
 
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Larry Gude

Strung Out
And so it goes. It is stunning to think what the next President, and those following, will be able to do with a stroke of their pen. Unwind this. Expand it.

What check and balance?
 
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