The Navy Vs. Marine Mammals: How Often Do Ship Strikes Happen? … The Navy hires biologists and oceanographers to assess and document its environmental impact, but many of those impacts remain unknown.
The U.S. Navy is reviewing the impact of its operations on marine mammals after an environmental organization threatened to sue this summer in response to the death of two whales near San Diego.
The Navy’s Pacific military exercises from Southern California to Hawaii fall under a five-year permit approved in 2018 which gives the military an authorized “incidental take” — a calculation of the number of times the government believes Navy operations could harass, injure or kill marine mammals.
But critics question the accuracy of its estimates.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2021/10/the-navy-vs-marine-mammals-how-often-do-ship-strikes-happen/
