Biological Opinion on the Issuance of Permit No. 14097 for Research on Pinnipeds, Cetaceans, and Sea Turtles, in the Pacific, Southern, Arctic, and Indian Oceans

This document represents the NOAA Fisheries' biological opinion of the effects of the proposed research on the threatened Steller sea lion and loggerhead sea turtle, the endangered olive ridley, green turtle, leatherback, and hawksbill sea turtles and bowhead, sei, blue, fin, southern right, North Pacific right, humpback, sperm, and Southern Resident killer whales, and these species' designated critical habitat, as has been prepared in accordance with Section 7 of the ESA.