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Final programmatic environmental assessment for fisheries research conducted and funded by the Southwest Fisheries Science Center
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2015
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Alternative Title:Adoption of the National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center's environmental assessment on fisheries research conducted and funded by the Southwest Fisheries Science Center;Final SWFSC Fisheries Research PEA, June 2015;
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Description:"NMFS has prepared this Final Programmatic Environmental Assessment (Final PEA) under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to evaluate several alternatives for conducting and funding these fisheries and ecosystem research activities as the primary federal action. NMFS is also evaluating in this Final PEA a related action-also called a "connected action" under NEPA (Sec. 1508.25)-which is the proposed promulgation of regulations and authorization of "takes" of marine mammals incidental to the research activities through issuance of Letters of Authorization (LOA) under the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) (see Section 6.3 for detailed discussion). Additionally, because the proposed fisheries and ecological research activities occur in areas inhabited by a number of marine mammals, birds, sea turtles, fishes, and invertebrates listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) as threatened or endangered, this Final PEA evaluates activities that could result in unintentional impacts on ESA-listed marine species"--Executive summary (ES-2).
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Rights Information:Public Domain
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