Tourists Fined $500 for Touching Hawaiian Monk Seals

Tourists Fined $500 for Touching Hawaiian Monk Seals
File photo of an endangered Hawaiian monk seal. Phil Mislinski/Getty Images
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HONOLULU—A woman from Louisiana who was honeymooning in Hawaii has been fined $500 after a social media video showed her touching an endangered Hawaiian monk seal, U.S. authorities said.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration launched an investigation last month and found the woman violated the Endangered Species Act, said Dominic Andrews, a spokesperson for the agency’s Office of Law Enforcement.