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Clockwise from top left: Ctenophore that has ingested another ctenophore (visible within), between Powell and Lydonia Canyons. Chimaera, deep-sea fish, Lydonia Canyon. Rarely seen pompom anemone, Physalia Seamount. White sponge with purple crinoids, President Donald Trump, Mytilus Seamount. Octopus, Physalia Seamount. (Photos NOAA and Doug Mills/The New York Times/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Press Release June 5, 2020

Earthjustice Responds to Trump’s Rollback of Northeast Canyons and Seamount National Marine Monument

President Trump issues order opening Northeast Canyons & Seamounts to harmful industrial fishing

document October 8, 2018

Background information for court ruling on motion to dismiss in Massachusetts Lobstermen’s Association

On the lawsuit challenging Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument

Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, Atlantic Ocean (NOAA Photo Library)
Press Release: Victory October 8, 2018

Federal Court Upholds Protections for Oceans and National Monuments

Court dismisses an industry challenge to the first U.S. Atlantic Ocean marine monument

document October 5, 2018

OPINION: Federal Court Upholds Protections for Oceans, National Monuments

A federal court dismissed an industry challenge to the first marine national monument in the U.S. Atlantic Ocean.

document August 15, 2017

Earthjustice Comments on the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Marine Monument

Docket ID: NOAA-NOS-2017-0066; Review of National Marine Sanctuaries and Marine National Monuments Designated or Expanded Since April 28, 2007; Notice of Opportunity for Public Comment (82 Fed. Reg. 28,827 (June 26, 2017)); Notice of Reopening of Public Comment Period (82 Fed. Reg. 35,509 (July 31, 2017))

document July 26, 2017

Analysis of Potential Economic Impacts of the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument on the Deep-Sea Red Crab and American Lobster Fisheries

An important component of maintaining ecosystem integrity is setting aside some areas to function with minimal human impacts. When these areas are set aside, fish populations and fisheries may see direct and indirect benefits.

Visitors at Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah. Home to some of the most dramatic desert scenery in the West, the monument is often described as a “Dinosaur Shangri-la” due to its world-class dinosaur excavations. (Jeff Moser / CC NC-ND 2.0)
Press Release July 11, 2017

Senators Join Public Lands Groups To Call On Trump Administration To Listen To Overwhelming Public Support For National Monuments

As Interior moves to final stages of review, more than 2.7 million public comments support national monuments across the country

document July 7, 2017

Letter to Secretary Zinke and Secretary Ross

From Peter J. Auster, PhD., Senior Research Scientist, Mystic Aquarium, and Scott D. Kraus, PhD., Vice President, Senior Science Advisor, Cabot Anderson Center for Ocean Life, New England Aquarium. Regarding information focused on the designation of the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument under the Antiquities Act of 1906.

document July 7, 2017

Letter to Secretary Zinke and Secretary Ross

From academic scientists specializing in marine and environmental sciences, in support of the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument.

Corals were also diverse, but composition and abundance of corals differed between the north and south side of the seamount. We observed this colony of Jasonisis, a bamboo coral, with numerous crinoid associates.
case March 29, 2017

Defending The Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument

On March 29, 2017, Earthjustice—representing the Center for Biological Diversity and Zack Klyver, Head Naturalist for the Bar Harbor Whale Watch Company—along with the Natural Resources Defense Council and Conservation Law Foundation filed a Motion to Intervene in a case brought by the Pacific Legal Foundation. On March 7, 2017, the Foundation brought the case…

document March 29, 2017

Memorandum of Law in Support of Defendant-Intervenor Applicants' Motion to Intervene

The Natural Resources Defense Council, Conservation Law Foundation, Center for Biological Diversity, and Mr. R. Zack Klyver (“Applicants”) seek to intervene as defendants in this case to protect their interests in the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument (“the Monument”). Pursuant to Local Civil Rule 7(m), counsel for Applicants contacted Plaintiffs’ counsel on March 24 and 28, 2017, to ascertain their position on this motion prior to filing.

document March 29, 2017

Legal Document: Defending The Atlantic’s Only Marine National Park From Commercial Fishing

Earthjustice, representing the Center for Biological Diversity and Naturalist Zack Klyver, files motion to defend the designation of the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument

Paramuriceid seafan (octocoral) in Oceanographer Canyon, Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument. (NOAA OKEANOS Explorer Program, 2013 Northeast U.S. Canyons Expedition)
Press Release March 29, 2017

Defending The Atlantic’s Only Marine National Park From Commercial Fishing

Earthjustice, representing the Center for Biological Diversity and Naturalist Zack Klyver, files motion to defend the designation of the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument