Fisheries Cooperative Association rescinding 

 the Service's 5 March 1987 determination regard- 

 ing the required level of observer coverage on 

 Japanese catcherboats . 



13 April Commerce, public display permit application, Sea 

 World, Inc. 



13 April Commerce, modification of scientific research 



permit, Gerald L. Kooyman. 



13 April Commerce, scientific research permit application, 



S. Jonathan Stern. 



13 April Commerce, public display permit application, 



Mystic Marinelife Aquarium. 



21 April Commerce, modification of scientific research 



permit, Center for Coastal Marine Studies. 



21 April Interior, scientific research permit application, 



Charles Monnett. 



21 April Commerce, public display permit application, Gulf 



Exhibition Corp. 



21 April Interior, scientific research permit application, 



Sea World Research Institute/Hubbs Research 

 Center. 



21 April Interior, scientific research permit application, 



The Cousteau Society. 



27 April Commerce, commenting to the National Marine 



Fisheries Service on the "Draft Fur Seal Research 

 Plans: Needs, Alternatives and Priorities with 

 a List of Proposed Studies for FY 1987"; noting, 

 among other things, that the draft document 

 does not provide a priority ranking for proposed 

 research projects and does not identify all 

 necessary research tasks; stating the Commis- 

 sion's opinion that highest priority should be 

 placed on assessing and monitoring the fur 

 seal population and identifying the cause or 

 causes of its continuing population decline; 

 and recommending several specific research 

 efforts to accomplish these tasks; and also 

 recommending that the long-range fur seal 

 conservation plan now being developed by the 

 Service be completed as soon as possible and 

 that it be made available to the Commission 

 and other relevant U.S. agencies and organiza- 



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