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Local Opponents have say on Navy's dolphin patrol plan

The Navy held a public meeting Wednesday evening to offer information and solicit feedback about a plan to use trained sea lions and dolphins to patrol the waters off Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor near Bremerton. The Navy recently began to study the environmental impacts of using the animals in Puget Sound, which, in the case of the dolphins, is outside their natural environment. An earlier article on this proposal is here. Puget Sound is home to the endangered Orca Whale (also a dolphin).

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