The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposes to designate the entire island of Guam and eight islands of the Northern Mariana Islands, including Saipan, Tinian and Rota, as critical habitat for nine animal species and 13 plant species.

By Mar-Vic Cagurangan   The Western Pacific Fishery Management Council has taken a final action to lift fishing restrictions in the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument and other federally protected areas, in line with the Trump administration’s bid to reinvigorate America’s seafood industry.   “If we don’t support our commercial fisheries, we will continue to eat fish from foreign countries,” said Chelsa Muña, Guam’s agriculture director and representative to the council

More residents are back on the job and taking home higher pay, signaling an incremental improvement in the local economy, according to the latest employment report from the Guam Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics.