Table of Contents 



List of Tables iii 



Executive Summary v 



I. Introduction 1 



Personnel 1 



Funding 1 



n. Species of Special Concern 3 



West Indian Manatee 3 



Hawaiian Monk Seal 15 



Steller Sea Lion 24 



Harbor Seal in Alaska 31 



North Pacific Fur Seal 32 



Pacific Walrus 37 



Sea Otter 43 



Polar Bear 47 



Northern Right Whale 51 



Humpback Whale 55 



Bowhead Whale 61 



Gray Whale 66 



Killer Whale 69 



Gulf of California Harbor Porpoise 70 



Harbor Porpoise 73 



Bottlenose Dolphin 76 



in. Marine Mammal-Fisheries Interactions 79 



Interim Exemption for Commercial Fisheries 79 



Development of a New Regime to Govern the Incidental Take 



of Marine Mammals after October 1993 84 



The Tuna-Porpoise Issue 92 



IV. International Aspects of Marine Mammal Protection and Conservation 109 



International Whaling Commission 109 



High Seas Driftnet Fisheries 119 



Conservation and Protection of Marine Mammals in the Southern Ocean 126 



Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment 



of the Wider Caribbean Region (The Cartagena Convention) 134 



Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species 



of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) 136 



North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) 137 



lUCN— The World Conservation Union, Species Survival Commission, 



Marine Mammal Specialist Groups 138 



