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Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine NM
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Who’s defending Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine NM?

3 groups have it in their care

Marine sanctuary in Massachusetts, 3.14M acres, managed by NOAA and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, designated in 2016.

Likely to care

Groups likely to care about Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine NM

These 2 groups are a guess from each group's stated mission and where it works, not a record of work on this fight. Give directly; nothing routes through us.

1 more work nearby but is not tied to Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine NM on the record

On the ground in Massachusetts

Appalachian Mountain ClubBased in Boston, close to the groundRecreation

The situation

What’s happening to Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine NM

Underwater canyons deeper than the Grand Canyon and four extinct volcanoes rising from the Atlantic floor. Deep-sea corals thousands of years old live in these waters, the first marine monument in the Atlantic. The fishing industry wanted the protections gone, and in 2026 the administration delivered: a final rule reopened the monument to commercial fishing.

  1. 2016Designated as first Atlantic marine national monument
  2. 2020Commercial fishing ban lifted by executive order
  3. 2021Fishing restrictions restored
  4. 2026Proclamation reopens monument to commercial fishingNOAA / Harvard EELP · April 6, 2026
  5. 2026Final rule rescinds fishing restrictions

No public comment window is open on Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine NM right now. A call script is ready on the Public Lands Action Network, and the groups above are how the fight gets funded and argued in the meantime.

In the courts

The cases over this place

The dockets we track that name Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine NM directly. Active first.

WonMass. Lobstermen’s Ass’n v. RossU.S. District Court, D.C. · filed 2018 · Docket ↗
ClosedMA Lobstermen’s Association v. Wilbur RossD.C. Circuit · filed 2018 · Docket ↗

Your move

How to stand for Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine NM

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Build my lineup around Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine NM: the leading group here opens it, and the other seats fill from this record.

Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine NM has defenders. It needs more.

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Sources and methodThe situation, timeline, and threats: the MTJP threatened-lands record for Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine NM, with per-item sources. Court cases: CourtListener dockets in the MTJP litigation database (2 naming this place). Group crews and program ratios: IRS Form 990 via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, latest filed year, EINs on each group’s profile. Which groups are on the record for this place: MTJP editors tie a group to a fight only with a source link they have read, one link at a time. A group without one is shown as likely to care, a guess from the federal court record and the group’s own mission and footprint. Org-reported figures are always labeled. Data verified as of 2026-09-28. Nothing on this page is pay-to-play.