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...the Bahamas a day after the Navy used the intense sonar. Earlier this month, the Commerce Department's National Marine Fisheries Service sent a letter to the Office of Naval Research complaining that the Navy's assessment of potential environmental...
...1989, and only a handful of zoos turn to foreign sources each year, said Gene Nitta, an official at the National Marine Fisheries Service, which issues permits necessary to import marine mammals. Sea World and the Minnesota Zoo are the only...
...performance standards included in the strategy," Donna Darm, acting Northwest regional administrator of the National Marine Fisheries Service, said from Portland. "We believe this plan has the best chance of recovering the fish." A dozen different...
...threatened with extinction on the West Coast go into effect Monday. The new regulations, to be enforced by the National Marine Fisheries Service, prohibit acts that could kill or harm the fish. "It's the teeth of salmon recovery," said Bill Sullivan...
...interests on environmental issues. The Environmental Protection Agency, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Marine Fisheries Service and the Office for Surface Mining have all raised formal objections to aspects of the proposed changes...
...year drew formal objections from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Marine Fisheries Service and the Office for Surface Mining. But those natural resources agencies praised the Corps for retaining...
...baloney". But they don't dispute statistics showing a clear increase in shark attacks since 1993, when the National Marine Fisheries Service began enforcing a quota on shark fishing. "It's pretty simple," said Paige, author of a controversial...
...Resources Defense Council sued the Navy and the National Marine Fisheries Service in federal court Wednesday to block the use...Despite the public and scientific outcry, the National Marine Fisheries Service, under whatever pressure, has licensed...
...return to spawn in the river system each year, give or take a few. If those numbers can be achieved, the National Marine Fisheries Service would consider removing Columbia River salmon and steelhead from endangered species protection. The "productivity...
...conflict-of-interest rules. Members can recuse themselves from council decisions that pose a conflict of interest, but the National Marine Fisheries Service could only document two such recusals since 1997, according to a 2003 study funded by the Pew Charitable...