Federal Register - "Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to Specified Activities; Low-Energy Marine Geophysical Survey in the Gulf of Mexico, April to May 2013"

Title: Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to Specified Activities; Low-Energy Marine Geophysical Survey in the Gulf of Mexico, April to May 2013 Source: Federal Register Data/Action: DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE (Notice) Date: 6/4/2013 Text Preview: ...climate change on natural gas hydrates and the impact of degassing from shallow sub-seafloor and permafrost gas hydrates on climate change. However, that is not the purpose of this specific project. These goals of the GOM research program are consistent with the USGS mission to ``provide reliable scientific information to describe and understand the Earth; minimize loss of life and property from natural disasters...

...the impacts of military activities, fisheries, the Deepwater Horizon disaster, and the ongoing Unusual Mortality Event (UME) declared for cetaceans in the northern...

...from oil spills, drilling, pollution, hunting, ship strikes, over-fishing, climate change, etc. Species, such as the North Atlantic, humpback, sei, fin, blue,...