RECOMMENDATIONS The Marine Mammal Commission recommends that the National Marine Fisheries
on Marine Mammals, has reviewed the application submitted by the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory seeking authorization under section 101(a)(5)(D) of the Marine Mammal Protection Act to take small numbers of marine mammals by harassment. The taking would be incidental to a marine geophysical survey...
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.295.543 http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/permits/ldeo_midatlantic_mmc_comments.pdf |
| Summary: | on Marine Mammals, has reviewed the application submitted by the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory seeking authorization under section 101(a)(5)(D) of the Marine Mammal Protection Act to take small numbers of marine mammals by harassment. The taking would be incidental to a marine geophysical survey to be conducted along the mid-Atlantic Ridge in the North Atlantic Ocean from April through May 2013. The Commission also has reviewed the National Marine Fisheries Service’s 13 February 2012 notice announcing receipt of the application and proposing to issue the authorization, subject to certain conditions (78 Fed. Reg. 10154). |
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