15 July Commerce, scientific research permit 



application, Northwest and Alaska 

 Fisheries Center. 



15 July Commerce, requesting from the National 



Marine Fisheries Service certain infor- 

 mation on the Service's research plans 

 regarding the North Pacific fur seal 

 population for use in the Commission's 

 review of this subject during its 

 scheduled meeting in October 1986. 



17 July Interior, scientific research permit 



application, Robert L. Brownell, Jr. 



17 July Interior, scientific research permit 



application, Donald B. Siniff. 



17 July Commerce, scientific research permit 



application, Loro Parque, S.A. 



23 July Commerce, commenting to the National 



Marine Fisheries Service on the Final 

 "Combined Fishery Management Plan, 

 Environmental Assessment, and Regulatory 

 Impact Review for the Bottomfish and 

 Seamount Groundfish Fisheries of the 

 Western Pacific Region"; noting that the 

 Plan contained a number of provisions 

 that should help strengthen protection 

 for Hawaiian monk seals; further noting, 

 that the Plan did not provide adequate 

 assurances that potential interactions 

 between the fishery and Hawaiian monk 

 seal will be identified and avoided; and 

 recommending that: (a) the Western 

 Pacific Bottomfish Fishery Management 

 Plan be amended or a supplemental 

 statement be added to identify the need 

 for a research and monitoring program on 

 interactions between the fishery and the 

 Hawaiian monk seal and other protected 

 species; and (b) the Service take steps 

 necessary to design and implement an 

 ' experimental fishing program to supple- 

 ment and verify data received from 

 fishermen as a result of the reporting 

 requirement recommended in the Biological 

 Opinion on the Plan. 



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