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Taking of Marine Mammals Incidental to Commercial Fishing Operations - Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan Regulations (Us National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Regulation) (Noaa) (2018 Edition) The Law Library

The Law Library presents the complete text of the Taking of Marine Mammals Incidental to Commercial Fishing Operations - Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan Regulations (US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Regulation) (NOAA) (2018 Edition).

Updated as of May 29, 2018



NMFS issues this final rule to amend the regulations implementing the Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan (Plan). This rule revises the management measures for reducing the incidental mortality and serious injury to the North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis), humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae), and fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) in commercial trap/pot and gillnet fisheries to further the goals of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) and the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The measures identified in the Plan are also intended to benefit minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata), which are not classified as strategic stocks under the MMPA, but are known to be taken incidentally in commercial fisheries.



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