NMFS Requests Comments on Proposal to Allow Oceanographic Surveys to Take Small Numbers of Marine Mammals in Gulf of Mexico

Summary

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is seeking public comments on a proposal by the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), a unit of Columbia University, to issue an authorization to conduct oceanographic surveys off the northern Yucatan Peninsula in the Gulf of Mexico, which would incidentally take small numbers of marine mammals, including cetaceans and pinnipeds, for a limited time within the next year.