Marine Mammal Protection Act

Description

The Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA or Act) prohibits, with certain exceptions, the "take" of marine mammals in U.S. waters and by U.S. citizens on the high seas, and the importation of marine mammals and marine mammal products into the U.S. The MMPA gives the Secretary of Commerce, working through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Marine Fisheries Service, authority and duties under the Act for all Cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) and Pinnipeds (seals and sea lions, except walruses), and gives authority for other species of marine mammals to the Secretary of the Interior, working through the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. The Secretaries are also required to prepare and periodically revise stock assessments of marine mammal stocks (section 117). In addition, the Secretary of Commerce must publish in the Federal Register and revise at least annually a list of commercial fisheries that categorizes the fisheries based on the incidence of serious injury and mortality of marine mammals (section 118(c)). Source: https://www.fws.gov/le/USStatutes/MMPA.pdf Date enacted: October 21, 1972 Codification: 16 U.S.C. Sec. 1361 et seq. Authority: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Resources

Name Format Description Link
33 NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nos/ocm/dmp/pdf/48893.pdf
0 MarineCadastre.gov Data Registry https://marinecadastre.gov/data/
57 MarineMammalProtectionAct.zip https://marinecadastre.gov/downloads/data/mc/MarineMammalProtectionAct.zip
0 View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/48893
0 NOAA Office for Coastal Management Home Page https://coast.noaa.gov
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/find-data/idn/gcmd-keywords

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  • human dimensions
  • alaska
  • united states of america
  • office of coastal management
  • environmental governance/management
  • national ocean service
  • northern mariana islands
  • east coast
  • marine boundaries
  • west coast
  • mmpa
  • american samoa
  • united states
  • continent
  • noaa
  • guam
  • hawaii
  • federal georegulation
  • north america
  • doc/noaa/nos/ocm
  • u.s. department of commerce
  • earth science
  • ocean planning
  • regulation
  • marinecadastre
  • national
  • puerto rico
  • georegulation
  • marine mammal protection act
  • pacific territories

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