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On Friday, Pakistan's Foreign Ministry rejected the designation, saying it was not based on objective criteria.

Ron Ozio a spokesman for the university, declined to answer questions about the designation, saying only that "as a matter of policy, personnel matters are confidential".

Other environmental groups also applauded the designation, saying that it was as important to be good stewards of the ocean as it was the land and air.

Yesterday, however, the journalism school dean, Tom Goldstein, retracted the "off the record" designation, saying, "Our aim was hardly that restrictive".

José Juves, a Massport spokesman, questioned the basis for the designation, saying that the airport opponents had no data or research and that the trust had not offered any hard facts for its decision.

Some commercial fishers oppose the national monument designation, saying it would hurt their business if they are not allowed to fish these waters.

"He had no knowledge of the Friends of Angelo designation," said the spokeswoman, Alissa McCurley.

And the timing, opponents of the designation say, could not be worse.

Rick Smith, the executive director of Environmental Defence, a group that lobbied for the designation, said he hoped that the government would ban BPA from infant formula can linings.

"It is rather unusual for the Landmarks Commission to expand a designation," said Simeon Bankoff, executive director of the Historic Districts Council, an advocacy group.

The bank took no public stance on the landmark designation, said Neil Brazil, vice president for public affairs at HSBC North America.