Washington, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–October 9, 2014. With last month’s designation of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, President Barack Obama has made ocean conservation a major component of his environmental legacy. He now has an opportunity to build on this momentum by focusing leadership and action on the other major ocean policy initiative announced at the State Department’s “Our Ocean” conference in June: tackling illegal fishing and seafood fraud, a major problem for U.S. seafood consumers and marine ecosystems.
