NMFS Issues Incidental Harassment Authorization for Marine Geophysical Survey Off East Pacific Rise

Summary

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has issued an incidental harassment authorization to the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (L-DEO) for a marine geophysical survey in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean, allowing the survey to take marine mammals as a byproduct of the operation, in accordance with the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) as amended.