Is The Marine Mammal Act About To Be Gutted?

Fifty-four years ago, the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) was signed into law by none other than the President Richard M. Nixon administration in order to give salvation to our blubbery waterborn cousins. It was a time when they desperately needed relief from myriad overexploitations and injustices. It was also a time when natural ecosystems were so out of whack, it looked like the entire natural food chain might collapse.

Too few or too many of any sort of critter can cause a real disruption beyond human comprehension...