WATCH: President Trump Meets With Fishermen During Maine Visit

Maine Public | By Fred Bever

Published June 5, 2020 at 2:03 PM EDT

The region’s commercial fishing industries and conservationists are anxiously awaiting President Donald Trump’s planned roundtable with fishermen at 2 p.m. today in Maine.

He is expected to make an announcement regarding the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, a 4,900-square-mile area in the Atlantic. President Barack Obama created the underwater preserve, restricting fishing in an area scientist say is a hotbed of biological activity, but which the fishing industry says can still be safely fished.

This story will be updated.

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Fred Bever

A Columbia University graduate, Fred began his journalism career as a print reporter in Vermont, then came to Maine Public in 2001 as its political reporter, as well as serving as a host for a variety of Maine Public Radio and Maine Public Television programs. Fred later went on to become news director for New England Public Radio in Western Massachusetts and worked as a freelancer for National Public Radio and a number of regional public radio stations, including WBUR in Boston and NHPR in New Hampshire.

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