# 2025-07060: President Unlocks Vast Pacific Fishing Grounds in National Monument

2025-07060, Unleashing American Commercial Fishing in the Pacific, is a Federal Register presidential document from Executive Office of the President published 2025-04-22, effective 2025-04-17; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-07060
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-07060
- Title: Unleashing American Commercial Fishing in the Pacific
- Type: Presidential Document
- Agencies: Executive Office of the President
- Citation: 90 FR 16987
- Published: 2025-04-22
- Effective: 2025-04-17
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

President Unlocks Vast Pacific Fishing Grounds in National Monument

## Summary

The President just opened up parts of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument for American commercial fishing, saying it won’t harm the protected wildlife or ecosystems. This change affects U.S. fishing fleets, letting them fish in over 400,000 square miles of ocean that were off-limits before. The move aims to boost the fishing industry starting now, while still keeping nature safe and sound.

## Effects PRIA read

- Reopens 400,000+ sq mi to U.S. fleets: benefit, high. The proclamation removes the prohibition on commercial fishing in parts of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, restoring U.S. commercial access to over 400,000 square miles that were previously withdrawn. It allows American fishing fleets to fish in areas of the Monument expansion…
- U.S.-flagged vessels only to fish: benefit, medium. The proclamation allows commercial fishing in the Monument only by United States–flagged vessels, though permits may be issued to foreign‑flagged vessels to transship fish harvested by U.S. fishermen. This restriction applies where the Monument is coterminous with the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone.
- Commerce to repeal fishing restrictions quickly: benefit, medium. The Secretary of Commerce, through NOAA, is directed to expeditiously publish proposed rules in the Federal Register to amend or repeal regulations that restrict commercial fishing in the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument.
- Fishing remains subject to federal conservation laws: mixed, medium. The proclamation states that existing laws—such as the Magnuson‑Stevens Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act, the Clean Water Act, and others—continue to apply and help protect species, habitats, and water quality in the Monument.
- Intended boost for American Samoa’s fishing economy: benefit, high. The proclamation notes that American fishing fleets lost access to nearly half of the U.S. Pacific EEZ and that places like American Samoa have private‑sector economies over 80 percent dependent on the fishing industry; reopening access is presented as a measure to help those fishermen and territor…

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## Sources
- [2025-07060 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/04/22/2025-07060/unleashing-american-commercial-fishing-in-the-pacific)
- [2025-07060 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-04-22/pdf/2025-07060.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-07060 (as of 2026-06-08).