GLOUCESTER, ME (March 17, 2009) – Over the objections of the local fishing community, the legislature and the governor of an island chain on the other side of the world, a 115,000-square-mile, fishing-free "marine protected area" was created by President George W. Bush two weeks before he left office in January.
The idea was formed within the Pew Charitable Trusts, the multi-billion dollar philanthropy created by the descendants of the founder of the Sun Oil Co. and used to advance disparate environmental campaigns, backed by scientific research and pseudo-scientific public relations aimed at ending "overfishing."
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