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Endangered
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Responsible
Marine Wildlife Viewing - Viewing whales, dolphins,
seals and sea lions
in their natural habitat can be an educational and enriching
experience if conducted safely and responsibly. However, when
conducted irresponsibly, these activities can be disturbing
to the animals (i.e., causing "harassment") and place
their health and welfare at risk. In addition, there are significant
public safety considerations as people have been seriously injured
while trying to interact with wild marine mammals. Clearly,
the distinction between ‘viewing' vs. ‘interacting'
with wild marine mammals needs to be made to the public, an
effort that NOAA Fisheries has been pursuing for over a decade.
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Bioacoustics
- The NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Newport,
Oregon and National Marine Mammal Laboratory in Seattle, Washington
are collaborating on a joint study to assess the potential of
long-range acoustic monitoring of free-ranging populations of
large cetaceans.
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NOAA
Ocean Explorer Sound in the Sea Project
- whale sounds, sounds made by earthquakes and volcanoes
and MORE....
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Sound
in the Sea Gallery
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NOAA Fisheries
Office of Protected Resources - The NOAA Fisheries Office
of Protected Resources (OPR) is charged with the implementation
of the Marine Mammal Protection Act, Endangered Species Act,
and the Fur Seal Act with respect to marine mammal species under
NOAA Fisheries jurisdiction- whales, dolphins, porpoises, seals,
and sea lions. As part of the MMPA mandate, OPR works in collaboration
with the NOAA Fisheries Regions and Fisheries Science Centers
to develop and implement a variety of programs for the protection,
conservation, and recovery of marine mammals. |
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NOAA
Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratories Vents Program
- conducts acoustic monitoring. |
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NOAA
Fisheries Marine Mammal Acoustics Program |
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Marine
Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program - Marine mammal
stranding networks in the United States make up one facet of
a broader, more comprehensive program called the Marine Mammal
Health and Stranding Response Program, established in the late
1980s in response to growing concern about marine mammals washing
ashore in U.S. waters. The MMHSRP goals are: to facilitate collection
and dissemination of data, to assess health trends in marine
mammals, to correlate health with available data on physical,
chemical, environmental, and biological parameters, and to coordinate
effective responses to unusual mortality events. |
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NOAA Fisheries
Northeast Region Protected Resources |
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NOAA
Fisheries Northeast Fisheries Science Center |
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NOAA Fisheries
Northwest Region Protected Resources — Located in
Portland, Oregon, the Protected Resources Division provides
program oversight, and regional policy guidance on the conservation
of at-risk anadromous, estuarine, and marine fish in the Northwest
region. |
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NOAA
Fisheries Northwest Regional Office — Killer
whales, Gray whales and Makah whaling. |
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NOAA
Fisheries Southeast Region Protected Resources — The
Protected Resources Division is responsible for the conservation,
management, and protection of marine mammals and endangered
and threatened species occurring in waters of the southeastern
United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. |
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NOAA
Fisheries Southwest Region Protected Resources — The
Protected Species Management Division is responsible for conservation
and management programs involving endemic and migratory marine
mammals and endangered species populations adjacent to California
and in southern, western and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean.
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NOAA
Fisheries Alaska Region Protected Resources — The
Protected Resources Division, with offices in Juneau and Anchorage,
is responsible for developing management and conservation programs
for all but three species of marine mammals in Alaska, and for
providing regional policy guidance on marine mammal and other
protected species issues. |
Additional Links
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International
Whaling Commission
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Convention
on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)
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