What's the Navy Up To?

MARINE MAMMALS AND OTHER SEA LIFE TO BE DECIMATED

By Rosalind Peterson
August 11, 2009
NewsWithViews.com

The United States Navy will be decimating millions of marine mammals and other aquatic life, each year, for the next five years, under their Warfare Testing Range Complex Expansions in the Atlantic, Pacific, and the Gulf of Mexico. The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS under NOAA), has already approved the “taking” of marine mammals in more than a dozen Navy Range Warfare Testing Complexes (6), and is preparing to issue another permit for 11.7 millions marine mammals (32 Separate Species), to be decimated along the Northern, California, Oregon and Washington areas of the Pacific Ocean (7). (continued)

LINKS
http://newswithviews.com/Peterson/rosalind118.htm
U.S. Map of Navy Range Complexes 2009:
http://afasteis.gcsaic.com/docs/Range%20Sustainability.pdf
NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Deadline for Public Comment: August 12, 2009
http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/E9-16301.htm
Archive of Articles 2006-2009
http://newswithviews.com/Peterson/rosalindA.htm
Additional Information + Petitions
http://californiaskywatch.com/
http://www.agriculturedefensecoalition.org/
http://californiaskywatch.com/