Tag: Navy’s Pacific Training

NOVANEWS Explosions, Sonar, Ship Strikes Will Menace Marine Life Near Hawaii, Southern California By Center For Biological Diversity Center for Biological Diversity The U.S. Navy has proposed training and testing exercises in the Pacific Ocean that could injure or kill thousands of marine mammals, including endangered whales and seals. The proposal would allow the Navy to harm marine mammals approximately 15 million times over five years. That take, which the Navy today asked the National Marine Fisheries Service to authorize, could include seriously injuring 83 California long-beaked dolphins, three endangered blue whales and three Hawaiian monk seals, an endangered monk-seal population that has only recently begun to recover after heading toward extinction. “The Navy doesn’t ...