Incidental Take Authorization: United States Geological Survey Geophysical Survey in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean
Summary
NOAA Fisheries issued an incidental harassment authorization (IHA) to USGS to incidentally harass, by Level B harassment only, marine mammals during geophysical survey activities associated with a the USGS’s Mid-Atlantic Resource Imaging Experiment (MATRIX) survey project in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean.
![Project location map](https://media.fisheries.noaa.gov/dam-migration-miss/md_6g8Sfv2QM761.jpg?1527591078)
Location of research transect lines and linking lines
![Diagram of side view of base configuration (Source configuration 1).](https://media.fisheries.noaa.gov/dam-migration-miss/md_6kwgdr4H97.jpg?1527591079)
Diagram of side view of base configuration (Source configuration 1)