“This is in addition to freeing up a massive area off the East Coast for our Great Lobster Fishermen, and others (An Environmental Monument declared by Barack Hussein Obama and Sleepy Joe Biden, that I terminated!), and a half a million square miles of the beautiful Pacific Ocean, where every country was allowed to fish except for our Great American Fishermen!”
— Donald Trump, President
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President Donald Trump declared July 2 a scallop observance after NOAA opened New England to scallop fishing. On Truth Social, Trump said the move would yield millions more pounds of scallops yearly and create jobs at Norfolk, Cape May, and New Bedford. He also cited opening lobster areas, including a protected zone he said he revoked, and a Pacific section previously closed to US fishermen but open to others. Trump urged voters to back Republican candidates in the midterms. The Commerce Department shut northern Georges Bank in 1994 to protect scallop spawning, a restriction kept by later administrations. The scallop fishery is worth about $500 million annually.
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- theepochtimes.com ↗︎03 JUL 2026