Taking of Marine Mammals Incidental to Commercial Fishing Operations; Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan Regulations

• Main Author: Regulations Proposed Rule
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: ACTION; Proposed rule; request for comments. SUMMARY; The National Marine; Hake; Balaenoptera physalus; Eubalaena glacialis; Fin whale; Humpback Whale; Megaptera novaeangliae; North Atlantic; North Atlantic right whale
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.192.2572; http://www.nero.noaa.gov/nero/hotnews/whales/ALWTRP_pr.pdf

Fisheries Service (NMFS) proposes to amend the regulations implementing the Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan (ALWTRP), to revise the management measures for reducing the incidental mortality and serious injury to the North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis), humpback whale (Megaptera...