Environmentalists sue to protect whales, dolphins from Nav

OrangeEmpire · Nov 11, 2014

Environmentalists sue to protect whales, dolphins from Navy war games

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/11/11/environmentalists-demand-navy-alter-its-war-games-to-minimize-impact-on-whales/

According to an analysis of the National Marine Fisheries Service, a division of the Department of Commerce charged with protecting mammals, the estimated damage to the marine life includes the deaths of 155 whales, dolphins and seals; 2,000 permanent injuries to marine mammals; and 9.6 million incidents of temporary hearing loss and behavior changes in areas like migration, nursing and feeding.

But the Navy says fears are overblown and that war-gaming, which dates back to 1886, is a consistently reliable way to train for combat.

“Despite decades of the Navy conducting very similar activities in these same areas, there is no evidence of these types of impacts,” Kenneth Hess, Navy spokesman, told FoxNews.com. “Bear in mind that the permits the Navy requires to conduct at-sea training and testing can only be issued if our activities will have no more than a negligible impact on marine mammal populations.”
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IP · Nov 11, 2014

Been going on forever. I have no doubt active sonar and such hurt marine life, but I don't see how we can afford to not do these exercises.

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Environmentalists sue to protect whales, dolphins from Nav

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