2019 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 07:16:40 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] BIOTA: "Navy range exempted from proposed orca protection measures"
 
Navy range exempted from proposed orca protection measures

By Sally Ho
Associated Press 
September 19, 2019

SEATTLE - U.S. protections for the waters that a group of endangered orcas call home could soon expand beyond the Seattle area to encompass much of the West Coast, from the Canadian border to central California.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a proposal Wednesday to increase the critical habitat designation for southern resident killer whales by more than sevenfold under the Endangered Species Act.

Just 73 orcas remain in the Pacific Northwest population, the lowest number in more than three decades. They're struggling with a lack of chinook salmon, their preferred prey, as well as toxic contamination and vessel noise.

The NOAA proposal calls for an additional 15,626 square miles (40,471 square kilometers) of federally protected habitat that would run from the border with Canada, down south to Point Sur, California.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/09/19/navy-range-exempted-from-proposed-orca-protection-measures/

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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