New Ocean Reserves in USA offshore territories

By broadening the Pacific Remote Islands National Marine Monumentfrom almost 87,000 square miles to more than 490,000 square miles, Obama has protected more acres of federal land and sea by executive power than any other president in at least 50 years and makes the area off-limits to commercial fishing.



http://wilderness.org/newly-expanded-pacific-ocean-monument-builds-bipartisan-legacy

http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/national/proposed-expansion-of-a-marine-monument/1101/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-to-create-worlds-largest-protected-marine-reserve-in-pacific-ocean/2014/09/24/e2ecaab4-433e-11e4-b47c-f5889e061e5f_story.html