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More curbs on sonar exercises

HONOLULU: A federal judge has ordered the Navy to take additional precautions when conducting sonar exercises off Hawaii that environmentalists say can seriously injure or kill marine mammals.

U.S. District Judge David Ezra said on Friday the Navy cannot conduct exercises within 22.2 km of the shoreline, where species that are particularly sensitive to sonar, such as the beaked whale, are found.

Among other requirements, the Navy must look for marine mammals each day before using sonar, employ lookouts to spot the animals during sonar use and stop sonar transmission altogether when one of the mammals is within 500 feet. — AP

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