{"id":1085,"date":"2010-10-14T16:50:46","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T16:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2010-11-09T17:11:49","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T17:11:49","slug":"paid-not-to-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/14\/paid-not-to-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"Paid not to fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Media Watch, Christopher Pala, Honolulu Weekly, 13 October 2010<\/h5>\n<h4>Some folks made a killing depleting the Papah\u0101naumoku\u0101kea Marine  National Monument. Wait \u2018til you see how much they\u2019ll make not to fish  there anymore.<\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/honoluluweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/cs-paid-not-to-fish.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"215\" \/>The news came innocuously enough, in a press release earlier this year  from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. As a  result of former President George W. Bush\u2019s designation of the  Northwestern Hawaiian Islands as a marine national monument in June  2006, Congress appropriated funds to compensate the owners of seven  bottomfish licenses and 15 lobster licenses because they would no longer  be able to fish there. The bottom-fishermen would share $2.2 million,  the lobster fishermen $4.3 million. All licenses had been given out for  free. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>After two temporary closures by NOAA, the Honolulu federal court closed  the fishery again in 2000 because of still-disputed evidence that the  collapse of the lobster population had triggered mass starvation among  monk seal pups, and that in turn caused a 5 percent yearly decline in  the monk seal population. The fishery was never reopened, presumably  because the lobster stocks never recovered, and the monk seal pups in  the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands are still starving. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/honoluluweekly.com\/cover\/2010\/10\/paid-not-to-fish\/\">Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Watch, Christopher Pala, Honolulu Weekly, 13 October 2010 Some folks made a killing depleting the Papah\u0101naumoku\u0101kea Marine National Monument. Wait \u2018til you see how much they\u2019ll make not to fish there anymore. The news came innocuously enough, in a press release earlier this year from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. As a result &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/14\/paid-not-to-fish\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Paid not to fish&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14,37,48],"class_list":["post-1085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaiian-monk-seal","tag-fisheries","tag-papahanaumokuakea-marine-national-monument","tag-nwhi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1091,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions\/1091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}