While some people may see the establishment of monuments as cutting off commercial fishing access, undermining domestic seafood supplies and associated jobs, and harming the environment, this is not entirely the case in the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument.
Sablan defends the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument against claims it harms fishing and jobs.
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