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Making Your Views Known On Marine Mammal Regulation
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NMFS Requires PAM in Cook Inlet Seismic Permit
On May 11, 2012, the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service published Federal Register notice that NMFS has issued an Incidental Harassment Authorization to the Apache Alaska Corporation
to take marine mammals, by harassment, incidental to a proposed 3D seismic survey in Cook Inlet, Alaska, between April 2012 and April 2013. During the public comment on the proposed IHA, NMFS received comments from the Marine Mammal Commission, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, environmental nongovernmental organizations, and one member of the public. These comments and NMFS' response to them may be viewed by clicking here.
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NMFS Issues Seismic IHA for South-Eastern Pacific Ocean
On May 9, 2012, the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service published Federal Register notice that NMFS has issued an Incidental Harassment Authorization to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography to take marine mammals, by Level B harassment, incidental to conducting a low-energy marine geophysical survey in the south-eastern Pacific Ocean, May, 2012. This IHA is issued under the Marine Mammals Protection Act. This IHA is noteworthy in that, when estimating some Takes, NMFS used
"habitat modeling as a method to estimate cetacean densities on a finer
spatial scale than traditional line transect analyses by using a continuous
function of habitat variables, e.g., sea surface temperature, depth, distance
from shore, and prey density…."
Click here to read NMFS' Federal Register notice
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