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Douglas P. DeMaster, Ph.D., National Marine Fisheries Service, 

 Southwest Fisheries Center; Daryl P. Domning, Ph.D. , Howard 

 University; L. Lee Eberhardt, Ph.D., Pacific Northwest 

 Laboratory, Battelle Memorial Institute; Bruce R. Mate, 

 Ph.D., Oregon State University; James G. Mead, Ph.D., 

 National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution; 

 and William Medway, D.V.M. , Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania. 

 During 1983, William F. Perrin, Ph.D., National Marine 

 Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Center, completed his 

 term of service on the Committee. 



Funding 



The Marine Mammal Commission came into existence 

 during the second half of Fiscal Year (FY) 1974 and was 

 appropriated $412,000 for that period. Subsequent appropriations 

 were : 



In FY 84, the Commission was appropriated $929,000 by 

 the Senate and House Appropriations Committees, which 

 directed that nearly $300,000 of these funds be used to 

 support work in five areas: the California sea otter; 

 return of management to the State of Alaska; marine mammal/ 

 fishery interactions; endangered whales; and Antarctic 

 seals and whales. Further discussion of Commission activities 

 in these areas is included elsewhere in this Report, specifically 

 in Chapter II, Research and Studies Program; Chapter IV, 

 Marine Mammal/Fishery Interactions; and Chapter VI, Species 

 of Special Concern. 



