The agency directed regional fisheries councils to remove species from conservation lists and reassess protected areas.

In the Western Pacific, protections for endangered leatherback turtles face elimination. In Alaskan waters, Steller sea lion sanctuaries could soon shrink. And in the North Atlantic, gear designed to save right whales from fatal entanglements might be permanently scrapped. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) sent letters to the nation’s regional fisheries councils last…

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