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CNMI Got ‘Jacked,’ Western Pacific Fishery Management Council Is Told – “We were blind-sided and treated unfairly,”

Inos said it is possible for NOAA and US Fish and Wildlife Service to continually disapprove any management agreement so they can retain control over the submerged lands within the monument. He asked the Council to support Commonwealth efforts to have the submerged lands “presently being held hostage by the US Departments of Commerce and the Interior returned to their rightful owners.” But President Barack Obama’s,,, Read more here  16:16