CONTENTS 



I . Introduction 1 



Background 1 



Personnel 1 



Funding 2 



II . Research and Studies Program 3 



Survey of Federally-Funded Marine Mammal 



Research 3 



Research Program Reviews, Workshops, and 



Planning Meetings 4 



Commission-Sponsored Research and Study 



Projects 4 



Special Research Concerns for Fiscal Year 1984.13 



III. International Aspects of Marine Mammal Protection 



and Conservation 14 



Conservation and Protection of Marine Mammals 



in the Southern Ocean 14 



International Whaling Commission 20 



Interim Convention on Conservation of 



North Pacific Fur Seals 23 



Convention on International Trade in Endangered 

 Species of Wild Fauna and Flora 27 



IV. Marine Mammal/Fishery Interactions 30 



Background 3 



Interactions off California 32 



Interactions in the Southeastern Bering Sea.... 34 



Interactions off Hawaii 35 



Entanglement in Lost or Discarded 



Fishing Gear 36 



V. Incidental Take of Marine Mammals in the Course 



of Commercial Fishing Operations 42 



The Tuna-Porpoise Issue 42 



The Dall ' s Porpoise Issue 47 



VI. Species of Special Concern. 49 



West Indian Manatee ( Trichechus manatus ) 49 



Hawaiian Monk Seal ( Monachus schauinslandi ) .... 53 



Southern Sea Otter ( Enhydra lutris ) 56 



Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus) 6 



