{"id":40901,"date":"2025-04-24T12:22:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T19:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=40901"},"modified":"2025-04-24T12:22:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T19:22:22","slug":"trump-opens-up-nations-aquariums-to-commercial-fishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/trump-opens-up-nations-aquariums-to-commercial-fishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Opens Up Nation\u2019s Aquariums To Commercial Fishing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theonion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Trump_Opens_Up_Nations_NIB_IHA_GR.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Published: April 23, 2025 (TheOnion.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON\u2014Claiming that preservation efforts had impeded U.S. seafood production for far too long, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he had opened up the nation\u2019s aquariums to commercial fishing. \u201cStarting today, fishermen will finally be allowed to sail into America\u2019s protected aquariums, drop a net in any marine exhibit they please, and begin trawling,\u201d Trump said at a press conference, adding that commercial fishing would now be permitted in all glass-enclosed fish tanks,&nbsp;coastal mammal habitats, and interactive tide pools at the more than 150 aquariums across the United States, regardless of whether spectators were currently enjoying them or not. \u201cHow can Democrats stand by and watch hardworking fishermen suffer when the Monterey Bay Aquarium has an entire kelp forest filled with sharks, jellyfish, and an absolutely enormous sunfish just sitting there, going to waste. That\u2019s why I\u2019ve decided to waive the entrance fees nationwide and open every exhibit to fishing, even the ones with penguins, dolphins, and otters.\u201d At press time, Trump announced an additional executive order allowing commercial seafood vessels to fish in exotic pet stores, home aquariums, and private backyard koi ponds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published: April 23, 2025 (TheOnion.com) WASHINGTON\u2014Claiming that preservation efforts had impeded U.S. seafood production for far too long, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he had opened up the nation\u2019s aquariums to commercial fishing. \u201cStarting today, fishermen will finally be allowed to sail into America\u2019s protected aquariums, drop a net&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/trump-opens-up-nations-aquariums-to-commercial-fishing\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40902,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40901\/revisions\/40902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}