Prohibit Military Sonar and Seismic Testing harming Marine Mammals
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Feb 5th, 2013Someone from Guerneville, CA writes:
Hard to believe this is still up for discussion.....Feb 5th, 2013Someone from Solvang, CA signed.
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I write to express my opposition to this permit. To further allow the Navy to have an increase in incidental takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to Specified Activities; U.S. Navy Training and Testing Activities in the Atlantic Fleet Training and Testing Study Area The numbers of marine mammals the Navy plans to harm, harass, and kill are catastrophic in impact to all the species specified. It is without precedent to slaughter, maim, otherwise harm cetaceans and other sea life on this scale. This permit seeks to fundamentally effect the balance of the worlds oceans and it's natural habit. I wish therefore to demand that you do not award the navy this permit, which seeks to commit devastation which will have consequences well beyond the the USA oceanic jurisdiction. Request the application by the US Navy be denied.REPORT COMMENTS
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Feb 5th, 2013Someone from Los Angeles, CA writes:
I write to express my opposition to this permit. The numbers of marine mammals the Navy plans to harm, harass, and kill are catastrophic in impact to all the species specified. This permit seeks to fundamentally affect the balance of the worlds' oceans and it's natural habit. I respectfully request that you do not award the navy this permit, which seeks to commit devastation well beyond the the USA oceanic jurisdiction. The Navy's mid-frequency sonar has been implicated in mass strandings of marine mammals. In 2000, 14 beaked whales and several other marine mammals stranded themselves in the Bahamas in response to U.S. Navy vessels operating offshore mid-frequency sonar. Necropsies revealed bleeding around the animals' ears and brains. The entire Cuvier's beaked whale population disappeared from the area after the incident. In 2003, 14 harbor porpoises were stranded during Navy sonar training in Puget Sound. In 2004, hundreds of melon-headed whales were driven into Hanalei Bay, Hawaii by Navy exercises. We need to protect marine mammals and endangered species. Rather than forcing wildlife to withstand vast numbers of injuries and harassment, we ought to close off the most biologically sensitive areas to military training,REPORT COMMENTS
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Feb 5th, 2013Someone from Springfield, MA writes:
Not with my tax dollars. Here's a great way to cut spending.REPORT COMMENTS
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Feb 5th, 2013Someone from Carver, MA writes:
I write to express my opposition to this permit. To further allow the Navy to have an increase in incidental takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to Specified Activities; U.S. Navy Training and Testing Activities in the Atlantic Fleet Training and Testing Study ArearnThe numbers of marine mammals the Navy plans to harm, harass, and kill are catastrophic in impact to all the species specified. It is without president to slaughter, maim, otherwise harm cetaceans and other sea life on this scale. The USA proposal that only permit applicants and permittee's would be allowed to file an administrative appeal of a permit decision is also unacceptable and is nothing less then an attempt to limit freedom of speech and withhold recourse to the democratic process. Formerly all interested parties have been allowed to appeal a permit decision. I am aware of the growing objections that many United States citizen's have and who find this objectionable. That the government under this administration would seek to limit their rights under the constitution; for what amounts to Naval war games is wholly without precedence. The loss of marine life is too great, the oceans with all the vastly diversified free-roaming life of Cetaceans, together with all the other life forms contained within them are not owned or vested to the determination of the USA. This permit seeks to fundamentally effect the balance of the worlds oceans and it's natural habit I wish therefore to demand that you do not award the navy this permit, which seeks to commit devastation which will have consequences well beyond the the USA oceanic jurisdiction. America needs to respect the world and in this instance oceans do not exists to facilitate it excesses.REPORT COMMENTS
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