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NOAA Gives Navy Marine Mammal Protection Measures for Sonar Training off Hawaii

January 12, 2009 NOAA’s Fisheries Service has issued regulations and a letter of authorization to the U.S. Navy to impact marine mammals while conducting training exercises around the main Hawaiian Islands. The regulations require the Navy to implement measures designed to protect and minimize effects to marine mammals. The Navy requested authorization under the Marine [...]
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NOAA Will Work With Six Identified Nations to Address Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing

January 13, 2009 NOAA today submitted the first ever report to Congress identifying nations – France, Italy, Libya, Panama, the People’s Republic of China, and Tunisia – whose fishing vessels were engaged in illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing in 2007 or 2008. This opens the way for continued consultations between the U.S. government and [...]
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President Bush Discusses Conservation and the Environment

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. Please be seated. Thank you for coming, and Happy New Year. Laura and I thank all of our distinguished guests, starting with members of my Cabinet — Secretary Kempthorne, Secretary Gutierrez, Administrator Johnson. Admiral, thank you for coming today. We’re proud you’re here. Mr. Secretary, thank you for being here. [...]
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