WASHINGTON, June 26 -- Fish and Wildlife Service has issued a rule called: Marine Mammals; Incidental Take of Polar Bears During Specified Activities; North Slope, Alaska.
The rule was published in the Federal Register on June 26 by Maureen D. Foster, Chief of Staff, Exercising the Delegated Authority of the Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks.
Summary: We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, are revising a portion of our regulations under the Marine Mammal Protection Act pertaining to incidental take of marine mammals. These regulations, codified at 50 CFR part 18, subpart J, authorize the nonlethal, incidental, unintentional take by harassment of small numbers of polar bears from the Southern Beaufort Sea stock and Pacif...