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The Supreme Court will listen to an argument for the rights of whales to swim without the noonan of the Navy interrupting their everyday lives, according to the New York Times.The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco Ebel replica watches ordered the Navy to halt or reduce its use of sonar when marine mammals are nearby. The current administration said such a rule jeopardizes the Navys ability to train sailors and marines for wartime hostilities during a time of ongoing hostilities, according to a quote in the Times.While the Navy acknowledges hearing loss and behavioral disruptions, they say test should continue.
Environmental groups, like NRDC, claim the effects of sonar are more dramatic, and can cause permanent damage and mass strandings. They point out in their press release that the Navy acknowledges in its official Environmental Assessment of the exercises, that sonar use in Southern California waters willsignificantly disturb or injure Jaeger LeCoultre replica watches an estimated 170,000 marine mammals,including causing permanent injury to more than 450 whales andtemporary hearing impairment in at least 8,000 whales.The Supreme Court will now get to decide whether the relationship between executive authority and sound extends beyond private phone lines and remote islands with hushed prisoners, to an underwater realm.--Joe Spring
