One Health Priority Focus Areas:
- Extreme Conditions and Climate Change, International, Marine Animal Health, Regional, Water Quality and Related Illnesses
The Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program (MMHSRP) coordinates emergency responses to sick, injured, distressed, or dead seals, sea lions, dolphins, porpoises, and whales. The 1992 Amendments to the Marine Mammal Protection Act formalized this program by designating the NOAA Fisheries Office of Protected Resources as the lead agency to coordinate related activities and these four primary areas: stranding and entanglement networks, unusual mortality event response, biosurveillance and baseline health research, and the John H. Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance Grant Program.