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Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument
Stand · Find your defenders

Who’s defending Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine?

2 groups on the record for it

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

The groups

Who’s in the fight for Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine

Every group here is listed for a sourced fact, and each fact opens its source. Give directly; no gift routes through this site.

Your group works here? Add it. Send the page on your group’s own site that says it works on Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine. A person on the desk reads it before anything lists.

The situation

What’s happening to Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine

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 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 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

GiveGive to Center for Biological Diversity

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Their donation page ↗SpeakCall your representatives

A ready call script on Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine, plus any comment window as it opens.

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Every threatened place in the country, tracked, with who stands for each.

Threatened Lands Map

Build my lineup around Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine: a group in the fight here opens it, and the other seats are the matchmaker’s picks.

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

2 more in the fight, Center for Biological Diversity with 242 staff + 19 volunteers. That is who is holding it. Find your way in.

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Sources and methodThe situation, timeline, and threats: the MTJP threatened-lands record for Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine, 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 listed for this place: a group is listed only under a sourced fact, and each chip opens its source. Local means headquartered in the state (the group’s own site, else the legal domicile on its 990) or the place named in its mission on its latest 990. In the fight means a case over the place naming it (the court docket), its own comment on a decision about the place (regulations.gov), an editors’ link with its source or its own page approved by a person here, or events on its own calendar held at the place. No fact, no listing. Org-reported figures are always labeled. Data verified as of 2026-10-16. No group pays to be listed on this page or for where it sits.