Endangered Marine Animals List
The MMPA gives special attention to depleted marine mammal species and populations.
Endangered marine animals list. Vaquita is the worlds smallest cetacean and the most endangered out of the 128 marine animals. The truth is that the populations of many species are decreasing at an unsustainable rate and the number of species listed as. USA law that outlawed the use of endangered marine mammal species by humans for food fur and other commercial uses.
Marine Mammal Protection Act 1972. Species or populations are considered. NOAA Fisheries has jurisdiction over 165 endangered and threatened marine species 80 endangered.
The total population of this mammal is about 350 to 450. The Hectors dolphin is the rarest marine dolphin in the world. Thunnus and Katsuwonus species.
More humans also mean more trash and the Hawaiian monk seal has the highest entanglement rate of any marine mammal. Most seals and sea lions live in the cool water of temperate seas or the frigid water of polar regions. Some of the animals here are also listed among the endangered marine mammals while some are not mammals at all but are also endangered.
85 threatened including 66 foreign species 40 endangered. Listed in 2006 they were the only coral species under protection until 2014 when 20 other coral species were listed as threatened for a total of 22 species. Also stipulated that a species can be defined as depleted meaning that its population numbers have dropped lower than the optimum sustainable population OSP.
2 petitioned species awaiting a 90-day finding 12 candidate species for ESA listing 0 proposed species for ESA listing. It is one of the endangered species of marine animals. Seals and Sea Lions are among the oceans most endearing creatures.