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Commerce, commenting to the National Marine Fisheries Service on a petition by the 

 Government of Ecuador for a finding of comparability with the U.S. tuna/porpoise 

 program; noting that certain additional information was required before a positive 

 finding of comparability could be made; and requesting that the Service advise the 

 Commission of efforts to obtain additional information. 



Commerce, public display permit application, Clearwater Marine Science Center. 



Commerce, commenting to the National Marine Fisheries Service on petitions by the 

 Governments of Venezuela and Panama for findings of comparability with the U.S. 

 tuna/porpoise program; noting that certain additional information, particularly with 

 respect to the nations' enforcement programs, was required before a positive finding 

 of comparability could be made; and requesting that the Service advise the 

 Commission of efforts to obtain additional information. 



Commerce, public display permit application, National Aquarium. 



Interior, public display permit application, New York Zoological Society. 



Commerce, scientific research permit application, Randall S. Wells. 



Commerce, scientific research permit application, C. Rachael Howell. 



Commerce, modification of scientific research permit, Brent S. Stewart. 



Commerce, commenting to the National Marine Fisheries Service on implementation 

 of the 1988 amendments to the Marine Mammal Protection Act regarding the 

 tuna/porpoise program; raising certain questions about plans to proceed on specific 

 aspects of the provisions; and recommending, among other things, that: (1) if the 

 Service had not already done so, it inform foreign nations taking tuna in the eastern 

 tropical Pacific Ocean of new requirements under the 1988 amendments regarding 

 importation of tuna into the United States; (2) establish a system to inform 

 intermediary nations of prospective or actual import bans on tuna or tuna products 

 by the United States; and (3) undertake negotiations with the Inter-American 

 Tropical Tuna Commission to ensure that information collected by its observers is 

 made available to party governments in a useful form. 



Commerce, commenting to the National Marine Fisheries Service on implementation of 

 the 1988 amendments to the Marine Mammal Protection Act regarding the 

 commercial fisheries exemption, marine mammal population status reviews and 

 conservation plans, new permit provisions, and the study on the mortality of Atlantic 

 bottlenose dolphins, and forwarding suggestions and recommendations. 



Interior, commenting to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on the "Technical Agency 

 Review Draft of the West Indian Manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris) Revised 

 Recovery Plan"; noting that the revised Draft Plan does an excellent job of 

 identifying manatee research and manatee activities, priorities, and responsibilities 

 over the next five years; and recommending that the Draft Plan be expanded to: 

 (1) identify measures to ensure that complementary efforts of various Federal, State, 

 and private organizations responsible for implementing portions of the Revised Plan 

 are properly coordinated and carried out; and (2) identify additional habitats of 

 particular importance to manatees. 



Interior, commenting to the Minerals Management Service on the "Pacific Outer 

 Continental Shelf (OCS) Regional Draft Environmental Studies Plan for Fiscal Year 

 1990"; and questioning whether all the proposed marine mammal-related studies are 

 necessary and whether all necessary studies have been identified. 



Commerce, scientific research permit application, Southwest Fisheries Center. 



Commerce, scientific research permit application, Bernd Wursig and Salvatore Cerchio. 



Commerce, public display permit application, Micke Grove Zoo. 



Commerce, commenting to the U.S. Commissioner to the International Whaling 

 Commission on Japan's revised proposal to take up to 330 Southern Hemisphere 

 minke whales for purposes of scientific research; noting that the proposal appears to 

 be substantially unchanged from Japan's research proposal for the previous whaling 



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