A recent study, published in PLoS ONE, explains a new way to identify beaked whale foraging habitats. The study was led by Dr. Elliott Hazen and colleagues from Duke University, Woods Hole, and the Naval Undersea Warfare Center. They listened for foraging beaked whales and measured ocean features and distributions of prey off the east coast of Andross [...]
The Navy requested authorization under the Marine Mammal Protection Act because the mid-frequency sound generated by tactical active sonar, and the sound and pressure generated by detonating explosives, may affect the behavior of some marine mammals or cause a temporary loss of their hearing. NOAA’s Fisheries Service has issued regulations and a letter of authorization [...]
(This article was originally published on OceanLines on September 5, 2008.) NOAA has recently released a new study about a research effort in Hawaii to determine how marine mammals react to sonar. NOAA’s Fisheries Service, along with top international scientists and the U.S. Navy are leading the research. From the NOAA research vessel Oscar Elton [...]
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