SOMETHINGS REALLY, REALLY WRONG WITH US that any gov agency can OK blatant creature killing. My heart just...hurts. switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/zsmith/feds_give_navy_green_light_to.html ...The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS aka NOAA Fisheries) has announced the finalization of rules governing the Navy’s activities along the east coast and in the Gulf of Mexico for the next five years. In a Bizzaro-World move, with these rules the agency charged with protecting whales, dolphins, and other marine mammals gives its stamp of approval to Navy training and testing activities that will harm millions of marine mammals, killing many. While not entirely unexpected, it’s still disappointing to see NMFS walk away from the one measure that would significantly reduce impacts to marine mammals: keeping harmful training and testing activities away from ocean areas dense with whales and dolphins. ...it appears from NMFS’ release that it has adopted the course laid out in its Proposed Rule. There, it found that millions of instances of harm to the area’s whales and dolphins (including habitat abandonment, temporary hearing loss, and in some instances permanent hearing loss, injury to internal organs, and death) constitutes a “negligible impact” to the species harmed. And once again, NMFS is finding that that the most severe impacts (temporary and permanent hearing loss and death) can be “minimized” by a Navy lookout regime that is wholly inadequate and ineffectual.
Posted on: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 06:06:36 +0000
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