Interactive Public Docket: Marine Mammals

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•	NMFS ITA for Gulf of Mexico

•	NMFS Acoustic Guidelines

•	NMFS IHA for Scripps

Science


	•	Best Available Science on Acoustic Effects on Marine Mammals

	•	Seismic vs. Sonar

	•	Physical Effects

	•	Behavioral Effects

	•	Models

	•	Sound Propagation

	•	Mitigation

	•	Extrapolation From Terrestrial Mammal Acoustic Effects to Marine Mammals

	•	Cumulative and Synergistic Effects

	•	Indirect Effects


	•	NMFS

	•	MMS

	•	MMC

	•	NAS

	•	US Navy

	•	Sperm Whale Seismic Study

	•	ICES

	•	Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Institute

	•	NRDC

	•	ACCOBAMS

	•	The Acoustic Ecology Institute

	•	ASCOBANS

	•	Fisheries and Oceans Canada

	•	Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Limited

Library

Comment on IPD


	•	Potential Research Projects

	•	Research Underway

	•	Structure of the IPD

CRE Interventions


	•	Agency Administrative Actions

	•	Rulemaking

	•	Litigation

Soundings Archive

Marine Mammal Risk Comparison

Bycatch	Deaths Per Year
Global	360,000-500,000
U.S.	6,215-7,630
Strandings
Global	Unknown
U.S.	3,826
Commercial Whaling	None
“Scientific Research” Whaling (Japan, Iceland, Norway)	1,400
Subsistence Hunting	92
Ship Strikes	7
Acoustic	Unknown
Pollution	Unknown
Entanglement (other than bycatch)	Unknown