The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has released a Proposed Rule, Number 062206A. This proposed rule would allow the Navy to use Low Frequency Active (LFA) Sonar in most oceans for the next five years.
LFA is bad stuff. The sounds of sonar travel thousands of miles in the ocean and harm the things that live there. For more information, click on the Fact-Esque link at the bottom of this post.
Only 15 days were allowed for comments, and today is the last day. So please send a comment opposing LFA!
Send an email to this address: PR1.062306A@noaa.gov
You can copy the comment I sent:
To the National Marine Fisheries Service:
I am writing this email in opposition to Proposed Rule Number 062206A.
I oppose the use of Low Frequency Active (LFA) Sonar for the following reasons:
(1) LFA sound can travel at levels that are harmful to the marine environment for thousands of miles underwater.
(2) LFA causes mass strandings and deaths of marine mammals.
(3) Our oceans are already under pressure from pollution and global warming. Adding LFA will just further harm ocean inhabitants.
(4) The NMFS is supposed to protect fish, not harm them. This rule does not further your agency's goals and is not congruent with the latest scientific research on LFA.
(5) I agree with the following groups that have opposed the use of LFA: the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission, the United Nations Law of the Sea deliberations, the European Union Parliament, and the IUCN-World Conservation Union.
Please do not approve proposed rule number 062206A.
Thank you for your consideration of these comments.
Sincerely,
hat tip to Fact-Esque, which I saw on Newsfare
Fact-esque: Very Easy Anti-Sonar Action - Deadline for Public Comments TODAY
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