West Coast Region’s revised Endangered Species Act implementation and considerations about “take” given the September 2016 humpback whale DPS status review, species-wide revision of listings, and updates to best available scientific information

Details

• Personal Author:
  Yates, Chris
• Corporate Authors:
  United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region.
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) ; WCR (West Coast Region)
• Description:
  The purpose of this memo is to document the best available scientific evidence on the presence of the different Distinct Population Segments (DPSs) of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) off the coasts of Washington (WA), Oregon (OR), and California (CA) and to describe our revised approach to assessing the effects of various human activities on those DPSs pursuant to sections 7, 9, and 10 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (ESA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.25923/z9sa-n067
• Format:
  pdf
• Document Type:
  Non-series Report
• Place as Subject:
  Pacific Coast (U.S.)
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Submitted
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/71365/noaa_71365_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 760.79 KB]
• Collection(s):
  National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:05e904d997fe74fc38ced6971d294eec286b4ad14413bfacb76c7bf69e4d4b0e8cb6b852f85a99ba740f64bd0980264563df3354d954b1d76667b3920fa98d2a