The White House has recently issued a proclamation that “restores access to hundreds of thousands of square miles of Pacific waters for commercial fishing managed under existing federal law.” Objectively, it’s hard not to jump for joy for our hardworking commercial fishing fleets in the Pacific, for whom times, at best, are tough. On the other hand, conservation, and in some cases preservation, is a necessary if adversarial inevitability, at times, if we want to see our grandchildren to feast their eyes and bellies upon the beauties and delectables our seas have to offer. Not so long ago in the earlier part of this century, our nation’s fearless leaders took sweeping marine conservation measures over large swathes of the Pacific Ocean, starting in 2006, when President George W. Bush’s Proclamation 8031 established 140,000 square miles surrounding the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands as the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument.…