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COMPTUEX/JTFEX EA/OEA Final Chapter 4While COMPTUEX/JTFEX activities may have minor, temporary impacts on open ocean and limitedbenthic areas, adverse effects to essential fish habitat are not anticipated.4.3.1.5 Sea TurtlesFour species of sea turtles could potentially occur in the action area, all of which are protected under theESA: leatherback, loggerhead, green turtle, and olive ridley turtles. There are no density estimates for seaturtles in the SOCAL OPAREA, and there are no established criteria for harm or harassment.Studies indicate that the auditory capabilities of sea turtles are centered in the low-frequency range(
COMPTUEX/JTFEX EA/OEA Final Chapter 4dives (e.g., sperm whale). Accordingly, the Navy has adopted standard operating procedures to reducethe potential for collisions with surfaced marine mammals and sea turtles (refer to Chapter 5). Based onthese standard operating procedures, collisions with cetaceans, pinnipeds, and sea turtles are not expected.Personnel are aware that they are not to harm or harass marine mammals or sea turtles. As part of therequired clearance before an exercise, the target area must be inspected visually (from vessels andaircraft) and determined to be clear. The required clearance zones at the target areas, and exercises withincontrolled ranges, keep the risk to marine mammals remote. Open ocean clearance procedures are thesame for live or inert ordnance. Whenever ships and aircraft use the ranges for missile and gunnerypractice, the weapons are used under controlled circumstances involving clearance procedures to ensurecetaceans, pinnipeds, or sea turtles are not present in the target area. These involve, at a minimum, adetailed visual search of the target area by aircraft reconnaissance, range safety boats, and rangecontrollers.Ordnance cannot be released until the target area is determined clear. Operations are immediately haltedif cetaceans, pinnipeds, or sea turtles are observed within the target area. Operations are delayed until theanimal clears the target area. All observers are in continuous communication in order to have thecapability to immediately stop the operations. The exercise can be modified as necessary to obtain a cleartarget area. If animals remain in the OPAREA, then the exercise is either delayed, moved, or canceled.All of these factors serve to avoid the risk of harming cetaceans, pinnipeds, or sea turtles.The weapons used in most missile and Gunnery Operations pose little risk to whales, monk seals, or seaturtles unless they were to be near the surface at the point of impact. Both 50-caliber machine guns andthe close-in weapons systems exclusively fire non-explosive ammunition. The same applies to largerweapons firing inert ordnance for training operations. These rounds pose a risk only at the point ofimpact. Target area clearance procedures would again reduce this risk.4.3.1.7.2 Acoustic Effects Analysis Modeling ApproachThe inputs for analysis of acoustic effects on marine mammals consist of four parameters:1. Marine mammal population density (Appendix A)2. Marine mammal harassment criteria3. U.S. Navy training operations4. U.S. Navy sonar and underwater operational characteristics4.3.1.7.3 Marine Mammal Population DensityTo estimate marine mammal densities in the SOCAL Range Complex, three strata were identified andseparate density estimates calculated based on available data: 1,000-m depth north of30°N, and >1,000-m depth south of 30°N.Warm- and Cold-water Densities in Water 1,000 m DepthFor water depths >1,000 m, warm-water cetacean densities were calculated for two offshore areas, onenorth of 30N and one south of there. Data provided in Ferguson and Barlow (2001) differentiatedbetween estimated cetacean densities in the area north of 30N and the area south of 30N. Pinnipedswere not recorded by Ferguson and Barlow (2001), but the only pinnipeds known to occur in deep,4-17 February 2007
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