Fisheries Service Proposes New Rules to Safeguard Puget Sound?s Killer

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NOAA?s Fisheries Service is proposing new rules on vessel traffic aimed at further protecting Southern Resident killer whales in Washington?s Puget Sound. These large marine mammals, the subject of intense curiosity from kayakers to tourists crowding the decks of commercial whale-watching vessels, were added to the Endangered Species list in late 2005.

 

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