The preliminary injunction issued Thursday requires the Navy to create a 12-nautical-mile no-sonar zone along the coast and have trained lookouts watch for marine mammals before and during exercises. Sonar should be shut down when mammals are spotted within 2,200 yards (2,010 meters).

The Natural Resources Defense Council had sued to force the Navy to lessen the harm of its sonar exercises.

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