NOAA Rejects Petition to Expand NA Right Whale Critical Habitat to Mid-Atlantic Migration Corridor
NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service has rejected a petition that sought to expand critical habitat for the North Atlantic right whale to include a migratory corridor stretching from Maine to Georgia, finding that the petition did not present sufficient scientific information to warrant further review.
The 90-day finding, published in the Federal Register on July 22, was issued in response to a March 2025 petition from Save Long Beach Island, Inc., which asked NMFS to designate inner and outer migratory corridors connecting...
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