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RE: Don't test mid-frequency sonar on endangered whale migratory path
Command Atlantic Mail Code EV21KJ 6506 Hampton Boulevard Norfolk, VA 23508 RE: Don't test mid-frequency sonar on endangered whale migratory path Dear Mr. Jenkins, As a concerned American, I very ... for its testing ground. Given the extensive, long-term environmental impacts of this proposed concentration of sonar, it is also critical that the Navy implement a full range of mitigation measures to ...
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To protect whales, Navy will limit use of low-frequency sonar - Los Angeles Times
"Limiting sonar use in breeding grounds and other key habitat areas is essential for the conservation of ... last year challenging the National Marine Fisheries Service's approval of the Navy's low-frequency sonar exercises. Environmentalists asserted that the fisheries service had violated the Marine Mammal Protection Act ...
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OMI Info About: International Ocean Noise Coalition (IONC)
Issue 1: US Navy Undersea Warfare Training Range - Active mid-frequency sonar training range planned for the East Coast United States Issue 2: US Navy SURTASS LFA ... coast of Jacksonville, Florida. According to the Navy's Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS), the active sonar range: Will be the first of its kind in the world. Would be used as often ...
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OMI: Marine Mammals and Low Frequency Active Sonar (LFAS) Fact Sheet
B of low to mid-frequency sonar. These strandings demonstrate that 180 dB is not a safe exposure level. (SACLANTCEN Bioacoustics ... could affect the marine mammal food chain including fish and zooplankton (Marine Mammals and Low Frequency Sound: Progress since 1994, National Academy Press). Very little is known about how loud sounds ...
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Science Wire from the Exploratorium and Public Radio International
Aim High Program. Humans and nature agree: Low-frequency sonar is the best way to find things underwater. The problem is that while whales are using ... is an issue of national security. Learn more. Be sure to check out our archived webcasts about sonar and animals. DNA isn't just for fingerprinting people anymore. An Australian vintner has recently started ...
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NRDC: Protecting Whales from Dangerous Sonar
In early 2008, a federal court prohibited the Navy from conducting major mid-frequency sonar exercises in California without safety measures in place and rejected a White House bid ... The clear implication is that debilitating and lethal injuries are occurring in whales exposed to sonar at sea, perhaps by altering their dive patterns. But stranded whales are only the most ...
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OMI- Links to LFA Sonar Information
CNN Story Part 1 of 3: Low Frequency Sonar Raises Whale Advocates' Hackles http://www.cnn.com/nature/9907/01/sea.noise.part2 - CNN ... Policy Issues" written by Lanny Sinkin http://www.listen.to/lfas - Many articles and links about LFA Sonar and Noise. Part of Stop LFAS Worldwide Network. www.fishattorney.com - LFA Info and Marine Mammal Strandings ...
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Dolphin - Defenders of Wildlife
Threats Marine pollution, habitat degradation, harvesting, low frequency sonar, entanglement in fishing gear, boat traffic. Legal Status/Protection CITES* (All species of dolphin are protected under CITES: Appendix I: ...
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Navy admits sonar
U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service and the U.S. Navy revealed that sonar used during naval exercises in the Bahamas during March of 2000 contributed to the deaths of ... . The report stated "Based on the way in which the stradings coincided with ongoing naval activity involving tactical mid-range frequency sonar use... the investigation team concludes that tactical mid-range frequency ...
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European Parliament Calls For Halt To High Intensity Naval Sonar Use
Navy's nearly 300 ships and submarines. Mass stranding and mortality events associated with mid-frequency sonar exercises have occurred, among other places, off the coast of Washington State (2003), the ... capable of generating sounds up to 140 decibels more than 300 miles away from the sonar source. The Natural Resources Defense Council is a national, nonprofit organization of scientists, lawyers and ...
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