Comments on Proposed Rule to Designate Critical Habitat for Endangered Rice’s Whales

In preparing these comments, SSA carefully reviewed the Proposed Rule at 88 FR 47453 (“Proposed Rule”), the NMFS Gulf of Mexico Fishery Bulletin FB23-048, the NMFS 2023 Rice’s Whale CriLcal Habitat Report, and the current April 26, 2021 Biological Opinion for the U.S. Southeast U.S. Shrimp Fisheries (“2021 BiOp”)