Marine Mammal Commission

2003 Marine Mammal Commission Letters and Agency Responses

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Please note that a complete list of the 2003 Commission letters and agency responses can be found in Appendix A of the Commission’s 2003 Annual Report.

Possible review of the Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program

National Marine Fisheries Service

See notation at top of page.

Application instructions for scientific research and enhancement permits

National Marine Fisheries Service

See notation at top of page.

Process of obtaining scientific research permits

National Marine Fisheries Service

See notation at top of page.

Implementation of the incidental take regime

National Marine Fisheries Service

See notation at top of page.

North Atlantic right whale critical habitat boundaries

National Marine Fisheries Service

See notation at top of page.

Review of 2003 draft stock assessment reports

National Marine Fisheries Service

See notation at top of page.

Review of Florida listing criteria for species that are endangered, threatened, or of special concern and of manatee status

Florida Fish and Wildife Conservation Commission

See notation at top of page.

Release of stranded pilot whales

National Marine Fisheries Service

See notation at top of page.

Permit applications

National Marine Fisheries Service

See notation at top of page.

Zero Mortality Rate Goal

National Marine Fisheries Service

See notation at top of page.

Comments on clean-up of Tern Island, French Frigate Shoals, Hawaii

U.S. Coast Guard

See notation at top of page.

Reducing incidental deaths of large whales

National Marine Fisheries Service

See notation at top of page.

NOAA Fisheries Strategic Plan

National Marine Fisheries Service

See notation at top of page.

Ship Strike Reduction Strategy

National Marine Fisheries Service

See notation at top of page.

Comments on proposed manatee refuges

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

See notation at top of page.

Comments on the increasing frequency with which marine mammals are being subjected to taking by harassment through directed human-marine mammal interactions

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

See notation at top of page.

Standard 1 guidelines for U.S. fisheries

National Marine Fisheries Service

See notation at top of page.

Proposed listing of killer whale stocks as depleted

National Marine Fisheries Service

See notation at top of page.

Comments on the proposed marine reserves in the state waters around Hawaii

Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources

See notation at top of page.

Expansion of critical habitat boundaries

National Marine Fisheries Service

See notation at top of page.

Rulemaking regarding the List of Fisheries

National Marine Fisheries Service

See notation at top of page.

Incidental taking of Florida manatees

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

See notation at top of page.

Biopsy sampling of North Atlantic right whales

National Marine Fisheries Service

See notation at top of page.

2014 Marine Mammal Commission Letters and Agency Responses

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Draft environmental assessment regarding manatee wildlife viewing for the Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge in Florida.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Not yet available.

Application from Point Blue Conservation Science to take marine mammals incidental to conducting seabird research activities in California.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Notice of intent to prepare a programmatic environmental impact statement on the issuance of incidental take authorizations for beluga whales and other marine mammals in Cook Inlet, Alaska.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Not yet available.

Application from the U.S. Air Force to take marine mammals incidental to conducting maritime weapon systems evaluation program activities at Eglin Air Force Base off Florida.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Not yet available.

Application from Briana Witteveen to conduct research on large whales in Alaska.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary to take marine mammals incidental to black abalone research in the Farallon Islands, California.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Notice of intent to prepare an environmental impact statement for Cook Inlet Lease Sale 244.

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

Not yet available.

Request for information on the development of a long-term monitoring plan for marine mammals in the Gulf of Mexico.

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

Not yet available.

Permit application from the University of Alaska, Museum of the North, to collect, receive, possess, import, and export samples from marine mammals under the Service’s jurisdiction.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from the National Science Foundation and Antarctic Support Contract to take marine mammals incidental to a marine geophysical survey to be conducted in the Ross Sea.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from the National Marine Mammal Laboratory to collect, receive, possess, import, and export marine mammal samples.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Terrie Williams to conduct research on captive sea otters.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Proposed modified provisions for the Massachusetts Restricted Area as part of the Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan to reduce the entanglement of right whales in commercial fishing gear.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Funding priority for conservation and recovery of Alaska Pinniped Research Program.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Not yet available.

Amendment to Snapper Grouper Fishery Management Plan to rescind seasonal closure of black sea bass pot fishing.

South Atlantic Fishery Management Council

Application for the National Marine Mammal Laboratory to conduct aerial surveys of polar bears and walruses in Alaska.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Application from the Alliance of Marine Mammal Parks and Aquariums to receive, possess, import, and export samples from marine mammals under the Service’s jurisdiction for scientific research.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Request for information on southern right whales and sperm whales for use in five-year reviews of the their status under the Endangered Species Act.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Not yet available.

Application from Randy Sacco to receive and possess samples from dolphins for scientific research.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Petition from the Save the Manatee Club and the Sierra Club to seasonally prohibit public access to the Three Sister Spring to minimize harassment of manatees.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Not yet available.

Application from Ari Friedlaender to conduct research on cetaceans in Antarctica.

National Science Foundation

Amendment of permit to take sperm and humpback whales incidental to the California thresher shark/swordfish drift gillnet and Washington/Oregon/California sablefish pot fisheries.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Not yet available.

Application from Point Blue Conservation Science to amend its permit to conduct research on pinnipeds in California.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Not yet available.

Application from Christopher Marshall to import, receive, and possess dugong samples for scientific research.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Application from Northeast Gateway to take marine mammals incidental to operation and maintenance of a liquefied natural gas facility in Massachusetts Bay.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from the Partnership for the Interdisciplinary Study of Coastal Oceans to take of marine mammals incidental to conducting rocky intertidal monitoring activities.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Not yet available.

Application from BlueCrest to take marine mammals incidental to exploratory drilling activities in Cook Inlet, Alaska.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Not yet available.

Application from U.S. Coast Guard to take marine mammals incidental to replacement of structures at its Station Monterey in Monterey, California.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Not yet available.

Application from San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority to take marine mammals incidental to construction of its Central Bay Operations and Maintenance Facility in Alameda, California.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Apache Alaska Corporation, SAExploration, Inc., and BlueCrest Energy Inc. to take sea otters incidental to oil and gas exploration activities in Cook Inlet, Alaska.

U.S Fish and Wildlife Service

Not yet available.

Application from Navy to take marine mammals incidental to pile driving and removal in association with a pier replacement project in San Diego Bay.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Call for information on Beaufort Sea lease sale 242.

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Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement/Overseas Environmental Impact Statement for training activities to be conducted from within the Temporary Maritime Activities Area in the Gulf of Alaska for five years.

Naval Facilities Engineering Command Northwest

Not yet available.

Application from the Navy to take marine mammals incidental to training activities to be conducted within the Temporary Maritime Activities Area in the Gulf of Alaska.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Not yet available.

Petition submitted by the Pribilof Island Aleut Community of St. George Island, Traditional Council, to take 150 male fur seal pups per year for subsistence purposes.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Notice of receipt of application submitted by Apache Alaska Corporation to take marine mammals by harassment incidental to seismic surveys in Cook Inlet, Alaska.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Not yet available.

Petition to reclassify the West Indian manatee from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services

Presidential Task Force on Combating Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing and Seafood Fraud.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Not yet available.

Permit application from the University of Florida seeking to conduct research on manatees.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services

Petition to designate the central North Pacific humpback whale as a discrete population segment under the Endangered Species Act.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Not yet available.

Application from Maine Department of Transportation to take marine mammals incidental to construction activities in Eastport, Maine.

National Marine Fisheries Service

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Application from the Navy to take marine mammals incidental to pier maintenance at Naval Base Kitsap in Bremerton, Washington.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Not yet available.

Application from the National Science Foundation and Antarctic Support Contract to take marine mammals incidental to a geophysical survey in the Scotia Sea and South Atlantic Ocean.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the National Science Foundation to take marine mammals incidental to a geophysical survey off North Carolina.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Not yet available.

Permit application from Spiegel TV to film polar bears in Alaska.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Not yet available.

Application from the Port of Friday Harbor to take marine mammals incidental to a marina repair and reconstruction project in Washington.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Not yet available.

Oregon State University’s environmental assessment for the Pacific Marine Energy Center’s South Energy Test Site.

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Not yet available.

Request for information on preparation of 2017 – 2022 Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas leasing program.

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

Application from the Marine Corps to take bottlenose dolphins incidental to training operations at the Cherry Point Range Complex.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from SAExploration, Inc. to take marine mammals incidental to seismic survey program in Beaufort Sea.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from ExxonMobil to take marine mammals incidental to the installation of six conductor pipes in the Santa Barbara Channel, California.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Stephen Trumble to amend his permit for the import/export of earplugs of whales.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Not yet available.

Notice of intent to prepare an environmental assessment on Principle Power wind energy development off Oregon.

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

Not yet available.

Application from U.S. Geological Survey to take marine mammals incidental to a geophysical survey in the western North Atlantic.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Jamie Lloyd-Smith to amend his permit to conduct research on California sea lions.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Yukon Route Productions to film walrus subsistence hunt.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Application from Terrie Williams to conduct research on Weddell Seals in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.

National Science Foundation

Application from Renegade Pictures to film polar bears.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Not yet available.

Call for information to determine potentially significant issues related to the outer continental shelf offshore New York for future wind energy leasing.

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

Not yet available.

Application from Heather Liwanag to receive, import, and export marine mammal specimen for scientific research.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Request comments on authorization of incidental take of whales by Hawaii longline fisheries.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Permit amendment application from the National Marine Mammal Laboratory to amend its pinniped permit for research activities in Washington and Oregon.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Not yet available.

Application from Poles d’images to film polar bears in Alaska.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Application from the Navy to take marine mammals incidental to construction of a wharf at Naval Base Kitsap in Bangor, Washington.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Not yet available.

Application from Matson’s Laboratory to possess, receive, import, and export polar bear teeth.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Not yet available.

Application from Glacier Bay National Park to take small numbers of pinnipeds incidental to conducting seabird surveys.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Monterey Bay Aquarium to conduct research on sea otters.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Not yet available.

Proposed amendment to the Bottlenose Dolphin Take Reduction Plan to reduce bycatch from the species’ northern North Carolina Estuarine Stock.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Not yet available.

Application from Open Lens Productions to film walruses at Round Island, Alaska.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Not yet available.

Application from Alan Springer to conduct research on walruses in Bristol Bay, Alaska.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Not yet available.

Application from Robert Pitman, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, to conduct research on numerous cetacean species in Antarctica.

National Science Foundation

Application from National Marine Mammal Laboratory to amend its permit to conduct research on northern fur seals in Alaska and California.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Alaska Department of Fish and Game to conduct research on Steller sea lions in Alaska.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from the National Marine Mammal Laboratory to amend its permit to conduct research on pinnipeds in Seattle, Washington.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from ABR, Inc. to conduct research on sea otters in Alaska.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Application from BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. to take marine mammals incidental to a three-dimensional seismic survey in North Prudhoe Bay, Beaufort Sea, Alaska.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. to take marine mammals incidental to a geohazard survey in Foggy Island Bay, Beaufort Sea, Alaska.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Buccaneer Alaska Operation, LLC to take marine mammal incidental to exploratory drilling in Cook Inlet, Alaska.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application withdrawn.

Environmental assessment on an interim policy lease for wind resources data collection off Tybee Island, Georgia.

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

Not yet available.

Application from Steven Kazlowski to photograph polar bears in Alaska.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Application from Terrie Williams to conduct research on Weddell seals in Antarctica.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Alaska SeaLife Center to conduct research on Steller sea lions in Alaska.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Not yet available.

Application from Alaska SeaLife Center to conduct research on captive Steller sea lions.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Tamara McGuire to amend her permit to conduct research on beluga whales in Cook Inlet, Alaska.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Lease request from the Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center to conduct marine hydrokinetic technology testing on the Outer Continental Shelf off Newport, Oregon.

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

Not yet available.

Application from the National Marine Mammal Laboratory to conduct research on Steller sea lions.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from the Southeast Fisheries Science Center to amend its permit to include satellite dart tagging of cetaceans.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Deepwater Wind Block Island Transmission LLC to take marine mammals incidental to construction of the Block Island Transmission System off Rhode Island.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Deepwater Wind Block Island Wind Farm to take marine mammals incidental to construction of the Block Island Wind Farm off Rhode Island.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from City of San Diego to take marine mammals incidental to construction activities associated with the Children’s Pool lifeguard Station in La Jolla, CA.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Alaska Department of Fish and Game to amend its permit to include photo-identification of gray whales.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Alaska Department of Fish and Game to amend its permit to include various survey methods for ice seals and the use of remotely-delivered sedatives to capture adult bearded seals.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Not yet available.

Application from U.S. Coast Guard to take marine mammals incidental to repair activities at Station Monterey in California.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Not yet available.

Application from Mervi Kunnasranta to film harbor seals in Lake Iliamna, Alaska.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Southwest Fisheries Science Center to amend its permit to include additional survey methods and tagging of numerous cetacean species.

National Marine Fisheries Service

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Application from Furie Operating Alaska LLC to take marine mammals incidental to a proposed 3D seismic survey in Cook Inlet, Alaska.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Not yet available.

Draft National Marine Fisheries Service Stock Assessment Reports for marine mammals occurring in U.S. waters.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Threat of hydropower dam construction to the critically endangered freshwater dolphins in the Mekong River.

U.S. Department of State

Application from the Navy to take marine mammals incidental to training and testing in the Mariana Islands Training and Testing area (MITT).

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory to take marine mammals incidental to a Northwest Atlantic seismic survey off New Jersey.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from the Navy to take marine mammals incidental to missile launches from San Nicolas Island, California.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Dr. Alejandro Acevedo-Gutierrez to conduct research on harbor seals in Washington.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Northwest Fisheries Science Center Forensic Laboratory to acquire, possess, import, and export parts from marine mammals worldwide.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Sonoma County Water Agency to take marine mammals incidental to Russian River estuary management activities in California.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island to add northern fur seal habitat-use studies and extend the permit for one year.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from the Navy to take marine mammals incidental to road and airfield repairs on San Nicolas Island, California.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Cape Wind Associates to take marine mammals incidental to a high-resolution geophysical survey in Nantucket Sound off Massachusetts.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Petition to exempt dredged channels from vessel speed restrictions in seasonal management areas that protect endangered North Atlantic right whales.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from the St. George Reef Lighthouse Preservation Society to take small numbers of pinnipeds by harassment incidental to aircraft operations and restoration and maintenance activities at the St. George Reef Light Station off the coast of Crescent City, California.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Draft guidance regarding the acoustic thresholds for activities causing an onset permanent threshold shift and temporary threshold shift for marine mammal species under the Service’s jurisdiction.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from the Navy to take marine mammals incidental to training and research, development, test, and evaluation activities to be conducted from 2015 to 2020 within the Northwest Training and Testing study area.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Draft Environmental Impact Statement/Overseas Environmental Impact Statement for training and research, development, test, and evaluation activities to be conducted from 2015 to 2020 within the Northwest Training and Testing study area.

Naval Facilities Engineering Command Northwest

Draft Programmatic and Phase III Early Restoration Plan and Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement regarding early restoration in the Gulf of Mexico.

Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Assessment Trustees

Application from Versar to amend its permit to conduct research on cetaceans and pinnipeds along the Atlantic coast.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Permit application from Dr. Darlene Ketten to receive, possess, import, and export samples from any species under National Marine Fisheries Service jurisdiction during a five-year period.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Permit application from the BBC to take sea otters incidental to filming activities in Cordova Harbor, Alaska.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Not yet available.

Application from Apache Alaska Corp. to take small numbers of marine mammals incidental to a 3D seismic survey in Cook Inlet, Alaska.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from the National Science Foundation to take small numbers of marine mammals incidental to a marine geophysical survey to be conducted in the Dumont d’Urville Sea off the coast of East Antarctica.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company to take small numbers of marine mammals incidental to operations associated with the expansion of a sub-sea natural gas pipeline system from Lower New York Bay Lateral to onshore delivery on Rockaway peninsula.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Permit amendment application from the Pacific Whale Foundation to change the type of taking of false killer whales incidental to conducting humpback whale research to Level B harassment associated with false killer whale research.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Permit application from Dr. Ari Friedlander to conduct research on killer, humpback, minke, and Arnoux’s beaked whales in Antarctica.

National Science Foundation

Permit application from the BBC to take polar bears incidental to filming activities in Barrow, Kaktovik, and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Not yet available.

2015 Marine Mammal Commission Letters and Agency Responses

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Draft 2015 marine mammal stock assessment reports.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from the U.S. Air Force to take marine mammals incidental to conducting maritime weapon systems evaluation program activities at Eglin Air Force Base off Florida.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Alaska SeaLife Center to collect, rescue, transport, rehabilitate, and release to the wild northern sea otters and walruses in Alaska.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Draft Ecosystem-based Fisheries Management Policy Directive.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Not yet available.

Application from the Partnership for the Interdisciplinary Study of Coastal Oceans to take marine mammals incidental to rocky intertidal monitoring surveys in California and Oregon.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Stephen Trumble to amend his permit to import, receive, possess, and export parts from whales.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Todd Robeck to amend his permit to import, receive, possess, and export parts from numerous marine mammal species.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Jennifer Burns to amend her permit to collect, import, receive, possess, and export parts from pinnipeds.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from the U.S. Navy to take marine mammals incidental to construction at the Bravo Wharf in Mayport, Florida.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Northeast Gateway Energy Bridge and Algonquin Gas Transmission to take marine mammals incidental to operating, maintaining, and repairing Liquefied Natural Gas port and the Algonquin Pipeline lateral facilities in Northeast Gateway and Algonquin in Massachusetts Bay.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory to take marine mammals incidental to conducting a geophysical survey off Brazil.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Draft status review of the Sakhalin Bay-Amur River beluga whale.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Not yet available.

Draft Programmatic Damage Assessment and Restoration Plan and Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for the Gulf of Mexico.

Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Assessment Trustees

Application from Southwest Fisheries Science Center to conduct research activities on cetaceans and pinnipeds in the Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic, Southern, and Indian Oceans.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Revised draft environmental assessment regarding options to protect Florida manatees using the Three Sisters Springs Unit of the Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Not yet available.

Environmental Studies Plan for Fiscal Year 17.

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

Not yet available.

Proposed List of Fisheries for 2016.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Not yet available.

Proposed rule to revise its regulations to implement the import provisions of the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from St. George Reef Preservation Society to harass marine mammals incidental to conducting restoration and maintenance of a lighthouse in Del Norte County, California.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Dan Engelhaupt to amend his permit to conduct research on marine mammals in Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Point Blue Conservation Science to amend its incidental harassment authorization to take marine mammals incidental to conducting seabird research activities in California.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Amendments to the Appendices to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora for the Seventeenth regular meeting of the Conference of Parties.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Not yet available.

Draft Polar Bear Conservation Management Plan.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Application from Ari Friedlaender to modify his authorization under the Antarctic Conservation to conduct research on numerous cetacean species in Antarctica.

National Science Foundation

Application from John Downer Productions Ltd. to film northern sea otters in Alaska in 2016.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Proposed rule regarding experimental populations under the Endangered Species Act.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Robert Pitman to modify his permit to conduct research on cetaceans in Antarctica.

National Science Foundation

Application from Daniel Costa to conduct research on pinnipeds in Antarctica.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Draft Funded Priorities List for Gulf of Mexico restoration activities under the RESTORE Act.

Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council

Not yet available.

Application from U.S. Geological Survey to amend its permit to conduct research on sea otters in California.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Not yet available.

Application from Monterey Bay Aquarium to amend its permit to conduct research on sea otters that have been rescued from the wild, are undergoing rehabilitation, and could be returned to the wild in California.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Application from Iain Kerr to conduct research on cetaceans in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Not yet available.

Application from Lamont Doherty-Earth Observatory to take marine mammals incidental to a 2D and 3D geophysical survey in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities to take marine mammals incidental to construction activities at the Kodiak Ferry Terminal in Kodiak, Alaska.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from U.S. Navy to take marine mammals incidental to conducting Civilian Port Defense exercises in California.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Angela Sremba to collect bone samples in Antarctica and the South Shetland Islands.

National Science Foundation

Application from Colleen Reichmuth to conduct research on captive pinnipeds, including hearing and temporary threshold shift studies.

National Science Foundation

Application from U.S. Navy to take marine mammals incidental to a pier replacement project at Pt. Loma Naval Base in California.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Colleen Reichmuth to conduct research on captive pinnipeds, including hearing and temporary threshold shift studies.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Notice of intent to prepare a programmatic environmental assessment regarding the issuance of incidental take authorizations in Cook Inlet, Alaska.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Not yet available.

Proposed draft principles for determining seafood species at risk of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and seafood fraud.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Peter Tyack to conduct research on odontocetes in the North Atlantic and North Pacific Oceans and Mediterranean Sea.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Not yet available.

Draft environmental assessment regarding reducing manatee harassment in the Three Sisters Springs Unit of the Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Application from U.S. Navy to take marine mammals incidental to a wharf repair project in Mayport, Florida.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Applications from Spectrum Geo Inc., TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company, ION GeoVentures, and TDI-Brooks International Inc. to take marine mammals incidental to geophysical surveys in the Atlantic Ocean.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Not yet available.

Revised draft guidance regarding the acoustic thresholds for activities causing an onset permanent threshold shift and temporary threshold shift for marine mammal species under NMFS’s jurisdiction.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Supplemental environmental impact statement regarding possible changes to regulations governing subsistence harvest of northern fur seals on St. Paul Island, Alaska.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Not yet available.

Application from Daniel Costa to amend his permit to conduct research activities on California sea lions from California to Washington.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Northeast Fisheries Science Center to take marine mammals incidental to fisheries research activities in the Atlantic Ocean.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Bergerson Construction, Inc., to take marine mammals incidental to construction of a new transload facility in Newport, Oregon.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Terrie Williams to conduct research activities on marine mammals held in permanent captivity or during rehabilitation.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Southeast Fisheries Science Center to amend its permit to conduct research on cetaceans in the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean Sea.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Washington State Department of Transportation Ferries Division to take marine mammals incidental to replacement of the Mukilteo Multimodal Ferry Terminal in Mukilteo, Washington.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District to take marine mammals incidental to a jetty rehabilitation project at the mouth of the Columbia River.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from California Department of Transportation to take marine mammals incidental to demolition of Pier E3 of the old San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from U.S. Navy to take marine mammals incidental to maintenance projects at Piers 6 and 4 at Naval Base Kitsap in Bremerton, Washington.

National Marine Fisheries Service

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Application from Florian Schulz to conduct filming activities on polar bears in Alaska.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Application from NEFSC to amend its permit to conduct research on pinnipeds along the U.S. east coast.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Douglas Nowacek to amend his permit to conduct research on cetacean species in the North Atlantic, North Pacific, and Southern Oceans.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Draft Environmental Impact Statement regarding the Makah Tribe’s request to resume hunting gray whales.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Not yet available.

Application from ExxonMobil Alaska LNG LLC to take marine mammals incidental to a geophysical and geotechnical survey in Cook Inlet, Alaska.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Proposal to revise the global listing of humpback whales as endangered under the Endangered Species Act.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Draft Cook Inlet Beluga Whale Recovery Plan.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Melissa McKinney to import, receive, possess, and export samples from polar bears and walruses.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Application from Cornell University to import, receive, and possess DNA samples from cetaceans and pinnipeds.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from U.S. Geological Survey to amend its permit to conduct research on walruses in Alaska.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Not yet available.

Revisions to National Bycatch Strategy.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Not yet available.

Application from Kathleen Colegrove to import, receive, and possess samples from cetaceans and pinnipeds.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Melissa McKinney to import, receive, possess, and export samples from cetaceans and pinnipeds.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from the University of Florida to import, receive, possess, and export samples from cetaceans and pinnipeds.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Proposed rule to revise National Standard Guidelines 1, 3, and 7 of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Letter to NMFS regarding Regional Fishery Management Council decision on marine mammal bycatch that is inconsistent with TRT recommendations.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Not yet available.

Draft Hawaiian Island Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary’s Management Plan.

National Ocean Service

Application from the Navy to take marine mammals incidental to training and testing activities to be conducted within the Northwest Training and Testing study area.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from BBC to conduct filming activities on odontocetes and pinnipeds in California for Big Blue Live.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Hilcorp Alaska, LLC, to take marine mammals incidental to a geohazard survey in Foggy Island Bay, Beaufort Sea, Alaska.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Daniel Costa to conduct research on northern elephant seals in California, Oregon, and Washington.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Development of a port access route study for the Chukchi Sea, Bering Strait, and Bering Sea.

U.S. Department of Transportation

Not yet available.

Application from the California Department of Transportation to take marine mammal incidental to conducting dismantling activities associated with replacement of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in California.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from SAExploration, Inc., to take marine mammals incidental to a seismic survey in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to conduct research on walruses in Alaska.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Not yet available

Application from the Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program to conduct various activities on marine mammals.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from BBC to conduct filming activities on sea otters in California for Ocean.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Application from BBC to conduct filming activities on sea otters in California for Big Blue Live.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Application from Breezy Media USA to conduct filming activities on killer whales and beluga whales in Alaska.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from the Navy to take marine mammals incidental to a wharf construction project in Hood Canal at Naval Base Kitsap in Bangor, Washington.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Request from Deepwater Wind Block Island Transmission, LLC and the Narragansett Electric Company to transfer an existing authorization for the take of marine mammals incidental to construction of the Block Island Transmission System.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Draft 2014 National Marine Fisheries Service Stock Assessment Reports for marine mammals occurring in U.S. waters.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from HDR, Inc., to conduct research on ice seals in Alaska.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Not yet available.

Application from Robert Rockwell to import, possess, and export samples from polar bears.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Application from Alaska Department of Fish and Game to conduct research on cetaceans in the Arctic.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Bureau of Land Management to take Steller sea lions incidental to a land survey on a small island within the eastern Aleutian Islands archipelago.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Proposed rule to expand North Atlantic right whale critical habitat.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from SAExploration to take marine mammals incidental to a seismic survey in Cook Inlet, Alaska.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Proposed amendments to regulations governing the Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Glacier Bay National Park to take marine mammals incidental to seabird research.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Apache to take marine mammals incidental to seismic surveys in Cook Inlet, Alaska.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Bruce Mate to amend his permit to conduct research on marine mammals worldwide.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory to take marine mammals incidental to a marine geophysical survey off New Jersey.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Huna Totem Corporation to take marine mammals incidental to construction activities at the Icy Strait Point Cruise Ship Terminal in Hoonah, Alaska.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Shell to take marine mammals incidental to exploratory drilling in the Chukchi Sea, Alaska.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Shell to take marine mammals incidental to ice overflight surveys in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas, Alaska.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Scripps Institution of Oceanography to take marine mammals incidental to a marine geophysical survey off New Zealand.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Proposed rule for Arctic ringed seal critical habitat.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Not yet available.

Application from Minnesota Zoological Garden to conduct research activities on captive Hawaiian monk seals.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from James Shine to amend his permit to import, receive, and possess samples from long-finned pilot whales.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Draft Proposed Program for the 2017-2022 OCS oil and gas leasing program and notice of intent to prepare a programmatic environmental impact statement.

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

Application from the Sonoma County Water Authority to take marine mammals incidental to estuary management activities at the Russian River in California.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from the Washington Department of Transportation Ferries Division to take marine mammals incidental to construction activities at the Anacortes Ferry Terminal in Washington.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Dolphin World Productions Ltd to conduct filming activities on bottlenose dolphins in Florida.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Leslie Cornick to conduct research northern fur seals on St. Paul Island, Alaska.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Texas Sealife Center to conduct research on dolphins in Texas waters.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Environmental assessment for commercial wind lease issuance and site assessment activities off North Carolina.

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

Not yet available.

Draft environmental impact statement for construction and operation of land-water interface structures and a service pier extension at Naval Base Kitsap in Bangor, Washington.

U.S. Navy

Not yet available.

Application from the Southwest Fisheries Science Center to take marine mammals incidental to fisheries research activities.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Proposed rule for implementing the Standardized Bycatch Reporting Methodology Omnibus Amendment for fisheries of the northeastern United States.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Not yet available.

Application from Randall Wells to amend his permit to conduct research on dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico.

National Marine Fisheries Service

Application from Tom Smith to conduct research activities on polar bears in Alaska.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Application from Navy to take marine mammals incidental to Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore training activities conducted in Virginia and North Carolina.

National Marine Fisheries Services

Application from Allyson Hindle to receive, possess, import, and export samples from marine mammals under National Marine Fisheries Service jurisdiction for purposes of scientific research.

National Marine Fisheries Services

Application from Washington State Department of Transportation Ferries Division to take marine mammals incidental to retrofitting activities at the Vashon ferry terminal in Puget Sound, Washington.

National Marine Fisheries Services

Assessment of the sustainability of the Northeastern Tropical Pacific purse seine tuna fishery.

Marine Stewardship Council

Not yet available.

Implementation of recommendations to the Presidential Task Force on Combating Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing and Seafood Fraud.

National Marine Fisheries Services

Not yet available.

Notice of intent to prepare guidelines for safely deterring marine mammals from damaging gear, catch, or property or endangering personal safety.

National Marine Fisheries Services

Not yet available.