All Protected Resources Regulations & Actions
Incidental Take Authorization: Garden State Offshore Energy Geophysical Survey for Skipjack Wind, Offshore Delaware
NOAA Fisheries issued an IHA to Garden State Offshore Energy, LLC, for authorization to take marine mammals incidental to marine site characterization surveys off the coast of Delaware as part of the Skipjack Wind Project in the area of the Commercia
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Incidental Take Authorization: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Marine Geophysical Surveys in the Southwest Pacific Ocean
NOAA Fisheries issued an Incidental Harassment Authorization to Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University for authorization to take marine mammals incidental to marine geophysical surveys in the Southwest Pacific Ocean.
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Incidental Take Authorization: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Geophysical Survey in the Northeast Pacific Ocean
NOAA Fisheries issued an Incidental Harassment Authorization to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography for authorization to take marine mammals incidental to a low-energy marine geophysical survey in the northeastern Pacific Ocean.
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Incidental Take Authorization: University of Hawaii Marine Geophysical Survey in the Central Pacific Ocean
NOAA Fisheries issued an Incidental Harassment Authorization to the University of Hawaii to incidentally take, by Level A and Level B harassment only, small numbers of marine mammals during a marine geophysical survey in the Central Pacific Ocean.
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Incidental Take Authorization: U.S. Air Force 86 Fighter Weapons Squadron Long Range Strike Weapon Systems Evaluation Program, Kauai, Hawaii (2017
NOAA Fisheries has issued regulations under the MMPA for the taking of marine mammals incidental to Long Range Strike Weapons System Evaluation Program exercises off Kauai, Hawaii. These regulations allow NOAA Fisheries to issue a LOA to the U.S. Air
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Incidental Take Authorization: Deepwater Wind Marine Site Characterization Surveys off of New York
NOAA Fisheries has issued an IHA to Deepwater Wind, LLC, to take marine mammals, by harassment, incidental to high-resolution geophysical and geotechnical surveys associated with marine site characterization activities off the coast of New York in the are
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Incidental Take Authorization: U.S. Navy Training Activities in the Gulf of Alaska Temporary Maritime Activities Area (2017-2022)
Upon application from the U.S. Navy, NOAA Fisheries has issued regulations under the MMPA to govern the unintentional taking of marine mammals incidental to the training activities conducted in the Gulf of Alaska Temporary Maritime Activities Study A
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Port and Algonquin Pipeline Operation, Maintenance and Repair in Massachusetts Bay (2016-2017)
NOAA Fisheries has issued an IHA to Northeast Gateway Energy Bridge, L.P. and Algonquin Gas Transmission, L.L.C. for authorization under the MMPA to take small numbers of 14 species of marine mammals.
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Incidental Take Authorization: U.S. Navy Northwest Training and Testing (NWTT) (2015–2020)
NOAA Fisheries has issued regulations and Letters of Authorization (LOA) under the MMPA to govern the unintentional taking of marine mammals incidental to training and testing activities conducted in the Northwest Training and Testing (NWTT) Study Area fr
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Incidental Take Authorization: NOAA Fisheries SWFSC Fisheries and Ecosystem Research Activities in the Pacific Ocean
NOAA Fisheries Office of Protected Resources has issued an LOA and regulations under the MMPA to govern the unintentional take of small numbers of marine mammals incidental to fisheries research conducted by the NOAA Fisheries Southwest Fisheries Sci
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