Chapter HI — Marine Mammal-Fisheries Interactions 



Table 8. Estimated Percent Observer Coverage for Category I Fisheries during the Interim 

 Exemption Period 



' Observer coverage is funded on a fiscal year basis and targeted coverage is for the period 1 Oclober-30 September. 



^ Estimated observer coverage is recorded on a calendar year basis. 



' Observer coverage for the first six months of 1991 was approximately one percent and approximately ten percent for the last six months 



of 1991. 

 ^ The National Marine Fisheries Service plans to propose reclassifying this fishery as Category D and does not plan to place observers in 



1992. 

 * These fisheries were reclassified as Category II in 1991 . 

 ' No joint fishery operations occurred in 1991 and none are expected in 1992. 

 ' This fishery was added to Category I in 1991 . No specific observer coverage level was established. In FY 1991 and FY 1992, 



respectively, $168,000 and $75,000 was allocated for the observer program in this fishery. 



mammals incidental to commercial fishing after 1 

 October 1993 do the following: 



fishing to insignificant levels approaching a zero 

 mortality and serious injury rate; 



• re-affirm the Marine Mammal Protection Act's 

 goal to reduce the incidental kill and serious injury 

 of marine mammals in the course of commercial 



reinstate the substantive, although not necessarily 

 the procedural, requirements of the general permit 

 and small-take provisions of the Marine Mammal 



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