Final F&WS rule allows non-lethal incidental take to continue

Alan Bailey

for Petroleum News

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has published regulations allowing the unintentional minor disturbance of polar bears and walruses during oil industry activities in the Beaufort Sea and the adjacent northern coast of Alaska for a period of five years, beginning on Aug. 5, 2021. The new regulation....

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