Incidental Take Authorization: NOAA Fisheries AFSC Fisheries and Ecosystem Research Activities in Pacific and Arctic Oceans
Summary
NOAA Fisheries' Office of Protected Resources hereby issues regulations to govern the unintentional taking of marine mammals incidental to fisheries research conducted in multiple specified geographical regions over the course of five years. These regulations, which allow for the issuance of Letters of Authorization (LOA) for the incidental take of marine mammals during the described activities and specified timeframes, prescribe the permissible methods of taking and other means of effecting the least practicable adverse impact on marine mammal species or stocks and their habitat, as well as requirements pertaining to the monitoring and reporting of such taking.
Research areas map
Diagram of fishing gears in water column
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Supporting Materials
- Issued LOA (pdf, 13 pages)
- LOA Application (pdf, 197 pages)
- LOA Application Appendices (pdf, 185 pages)
- Public Comments Received on Proposed Rule (pdf, 10 pages)
- Final Programmatic EA
- Public Comments on Notice of Receipt of LOA Application (pdf, 9 pages)
- Monitoring Report, 2023 (pdf, 22 pages)
- Monitoring Report, 2022 (pdf, 22 pages)
- Monitoring Report, 2021 (pdf, 25 pages)
- Monitoring Report, 2020 (pdf, 12 pages)
- FONSI (pdf, 8 pages)
- Biological Opinion
- References (pdf, 21 pages)