Regulations Governing the Taking of Marine Mammals

Abstract: The Marine Mammal Protection Act allows for persons to employ measures to deter marine mammals from damaging fishing gear and catch, damaging personal ...

How Effective Is the Marine Mammal Protection Act

Whale-watching vessels must take care to follow laws like the. Marine Mammal Protection Act and the Endangered Species Act, and regulations ...

Love whales, otters and seals? The major US law protecting them is ...

The MMPA makes it illegal to “take” marine mammals, which can mean anything from harassing them to capturing or killing them. Commercial ...

Law Protecting Marine Mammals Turns 45, Congress To Kill It - NRDC

The Marine Mammal Protection Act—bipartisan legislation enacted by Congress and signed by President Nixon 45 years ago—recognizes that human ...

Code Section Group - California Legislative Information

(a) It is unlawful to take any marine mammal except in accordance with provisions of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 (Chapter 31 (commencing with ...

Protecting marine mammals under the 50 year legacy of the MMPA

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), IFAW veterinarian, Dr. Sarah Sharp, chronicles in this ...

one of the primary exceptions to the marine mammal protection act ...

The statement about the Marine Mammal Protection Act is true. The primary exceptions to the act's moratorium on 'take', or the act of hunting or ...

Evaluating the efficacy of environmental legislation: A case study ...

Take reduction planning is mandated by the MMPA as a means to reduce mortality of marine mammals in US fisheries to below statutory thresholds.

The US Marine Mammal Protection Act: Past, Present, and Future ...

the Marine Mammal Protection Act. The MMPA was the first federal law to establish protections for marine mammals—giving them a chance to ...

Marine Mammals of the US North Pacific & Arctic

Buzzing, hovering, landing, taking off, and taxiing near marine mammals on land or in the water is likely to harass the animals. Federal Laws and. Marine Mammal.

Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the MMPA - YouTube

Celebrating 50 Years of the Marine Mammal Protection Act. Defenders of Wildlife ; POWERFUL VIDEO: Why We Need to Stop Plastic Pollution in Our ...

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

SECTION 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23. Article 2. Legal status of the territorial sea, of the air space ...

The Right Stuff: Regulations for Right Whales - NOAA Fisheries

North Atlantic Right whales are one of the world's most endangered large whale species, with only about 450 animals remaining. NOAA has ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Sawed the Head Off a Whale and Drove It ...

It is a violation of longstanding federal law to collect parts from the carcass of a protected marine animal if there are still “soft ...

Bring a Pet From Another Country into the United States (Import)

Animals traveling or moving to the United States may be subject to regulation by APHIS. Pet owners are responsible for meeting all ...

Prohibited and Restricted Items | U.S. Customs and Border Protection

CBP has been entrusted with enforcing hundreds of laws for 40 other government agencies, such as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Department of ...

MMPA50: Celebrating 50 Years of the Marine Mammal Protection Act

Just 50 years ago, a number of marine mammal species were close to extinction in US waters. Years of unregulated hunting and reckless ...

For over 50 years, the Marine Mammal Protection Act has saved ...

Today, the MMPA protects all marine mammals, from whales to sea otters to walruses and more. The Act prohibits the harassment, hunting, or ...

Elephant seal numbers drop after avian flu outbreak - Phys.org

"This virus is capable of adapting to marine mammal species, as we can see from the mutations that are consistently found in the viruses ...

Bringing food, plant and animal products into Canada

New permit requirements will impact both raw items (including hunting trophies) and worked personal and household effects. For more information, please refer to ...