President Barack Obama establishes a new area Hawaii for protection. The National Park Service has recently celebrated its 100th anniversary, and the President has announced the established one of the new coming monuments. In Hawaii, the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, the largest marine protected area in the world, created By President Bush in 2006 will expand roughly 582,578 square miles, or four times its current size. Now an even larger area around Hawaii's coast will be off-limits to commercial fishing, making some local fisherman angry. Some fishing groups worry the government's protection of these coastal waters will harm the fishes business, but Obama says more than 7,000 species will now have protection.
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Questions:
What do you think about the new monuments and how they will affect the fish?
Do you agree with the fishermen that the monument will harm the fish? Explain.
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Good story choice! Your first two sentences could have been written better. Be sue to proofread. Also, you commented two different days instead of three.
I think that the monuments will help protect some of the endangered fish. The fishermen will also lose fishing area and will have to waste more money on going out farther to fish rather than fishing in familiar places. The monument will harm the fish economy somewhat but will protect some fish that are not allowed to be fished for.
I think the monument is a good way to keep care of the fish so they do not become extinct in the future. I do not think it will harm the fish at all. I think that less fishing will help keep the population of fish up.
I think that the monument is a great way to keep up the fish population and protect endangered species. I agree that this monument will hurt the business of the fishing industry, because they now can't fish in an area that is four times as large as it previously was.
I think that it is also a great way to protect the endangered species, but as well as them not being able to fish here, they cane find other better places to fish.
I think it's great that they're helping the fish population. I think it has the potential to harm the fish because the population could become too large and could ruin the ecosystem there, but that's an issue to deal with when it happens.
I agree with you, it will keep the fish population growing which could potentially harm them.
The monuments are ok I am not that interested in them, to me it wouldn't matter if they were there, but the fish wont be affected accept more protection and the fisher men are right business for the fish could go down
I think that the new monument will help protect the fish and increase the fish population. No I do not agree with the fisherman because there is no evidence that it will hurt the fish.
I agree, there is no evidence that it will hurt them, I think the fishermen are mad because they can no longer fish in those areas.
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