The National Marine Fisheries Service has announced the issuance of a Marine Mammal Protection Act Incidental Harassment Authorization (IHA) to the California Department of Fish & Wildlife to harass (but not harm) harbor seals during the course of the state agency’s completion of a 122-acre restoration project in the Elkhorn Slough Tidal Marsh in Monterey County. The IHA is effective from September 16, 2021, through September 15, 2022.
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