Conservation groups, fishermen divided over NOAA plan for marine national monument

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Hundreds of people filled a conference hall Tuesday night to speak out on a federal proposal to permanently protect a network of deep-sea canyons and underwater mountains off New England by creating the first marine national monument on the Atlantic coast.The crowd at the meeting hosted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was divided between environmental groups and marine scientists on one side who [...]