NMFS Issues Permit for Drift Gillnet Fishery to Take Threatened Marine Mammals

Summary

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has issued a 3-year permit to the California/Oregon drift gillnet fishery, allowing for the incidental but not intentional taking of four threatened or endangered marine mammal stocks, including fin whales, humpback whales, Steller sea lions, and sperm whales, with minimal expected impact on the affected populations.