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The Action Proponents are committed to avoiding, reducing, or minimizing effects on the marine environment from at-sea activities. Mitigation measures are established and adhered to with the aim of reducing effects on resources. Mitigation measures can be activity-based, visual, or geographic.

Protecting Marine Species

The Action Proponents are committed to avoiding, reducing, or minimizing effects on the marine environment from at-sea activities.

 

 

The Action Proponents protect marine species and reduce potential effects on the marine environment when training and testing at sea by establishing and adhering to mitigation measures, such as:

  • Establishing activity-based mitigation zones
  • Posting qualified Lookouts to visually observe mitigation zones for marine species prior to and during activities.
  • Maneuvering vessels to maintain distance from observed marine species
  • Implementing seasonal and geographic mitigations

This is an image of a Navy Lookout aboard a ship.

This is an image of two melon-headed whales around the Mariana Islands.