National Marine Fisheries Service, Endangered Species Act Section 7, Biological Opinion ; Biological Opinion on Permit No. 20315, FPR-2017-9207 ;

"The action agency for this consultation is the NMFS, Office of Protected Resources, Permits and Conservation Division (hereafter referred to as "the Permits Division") for its issuance of a scientific research permit (Appendix A) pursuant to section 10(a)(1)(A) of the ESA. The Permits Division proposes to issue scientific research Permit No. 20315 for the capture, measuring, weighing, photographing/videoing, tagging (flipper, passive integrated transponder (PIT), and satellite), sampling (blood, fecal, and tissue), and epibiota removal of green, hawksbill, and loggerhead sea turtles in the waters of the U.S. Virgin Islands"--Page 1. [Consultation Tracking number: FPR-2017-9207]. [doi:10.7289/V5QJ7FJB (https://doi.org/10.7289/V5QJ7FJB)].

http://doi.org/10.7289/V5QJ7FJB

Biological Opinion

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