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

• Main Author: Docket No. I. D
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: ACTION; Final rule; Hake; Balaenoptera acutorostrata; Balaenoptera physalus; Eubalaena glacialis; Fin whale; Humpback Whale; Megaptera novaeangliae
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.221.8497; http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/fr/fr72-57104.pdf

SUMMARY: NMFS issues this final rule to amend the regulations implementing the Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan (ALWTRP). This final rule revises the management measures for reducing the incidental mortality and serious injury to the Northern right whale (Eubalaena glacialis), humpback whale...