Peninsula Daily News
BETHESDA, Md. — The federal advisory Marine Mammal Commission had little comment, with no major objection, to an environmental assessment of the Makah tribe's proposed return to whaling.
The commission — created by the same Marine Mammal Protection Act that covers the Pacific gray whales that the tribe hopes to hunt — wrote that a draft environmental impact statement "meets the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act."
The response has angered anti-whaling activists.
In Joyce, Margaret Owens of Peninsula Citizens for the Protection of Whales, said she was "shocked" by the marine mammal commission's decision not to comment on the environmental statement.
Earlier commissions, she said, were "nitpicky" in their criticism of fisheries service scientific assumptions.
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