The Marine Mammal Protection Act protects all marine mammals. It is illegal to harass marine mammals and if prosecuted, violators can be fined or face imprisonment. To report a sick or injured ...

2003-11-06 04:00:00 PDT Washington-- By adding just two words to a bill reauthorizing the 31-year-old Marine Mammal Protection Act, the House Resources Committee waded into a bitter battle ...

The agency is authorizing "level B" harassment of 14 species of marine mammals including right whales, ... Under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, "level B harassment is activity that "has the ...

The Marine Mammal Protection Act, which celebrated 50 years in 2023, has safeguarded species from extinction. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management honors this legacy by prioritizing marine mammal ...

La Jolla Parks & Beaches group to consider proposing changes to Marine Mammal Protection Act With San Diego weighing closing Point La Jolla to the public year-round, some think the 1972 federal ...

People who see a marine mammal in distress are asked to not approach them, but instead call the Marine Mammal Center’s hotline at 415-289-SEAL or in Los Angeles County call 800-39-WHALE. More to ...

Since 1972, the Marine Mammal Protection Act has prohibited the “take” of marine mammals—defined to include harassment, hunting, capturing, collecting, or killing—in US waters. Brownley seeks to ...

The Marine Mammal Protection Act also prohibits the harassment, hunting, capturing and killing of these animals. If prosecuted, violators of the act could face civil penalties of up to $11,000 and ...

I write to correct some basic mischaracterizations of the Marine Mammal Protection Act in Peter Howell’s July 28 op-ed on gray seals that go to the heart of his argument (“Protecting gray ...

As new data from the marine mammal center shows that there were 30 confirmed cases of harassment of seals, otters and sea lions in San Luis Obispo County in 2022.

The Marine Mammal Protection Act protects marine mammals indefinitely — in effect, in perpetuity, because the act does not contain a provision for delisting recovered species.