Chapter I 



INTRODUCTION 



This is the 23rd Annual Report of the Marine 

 Mammal Commission, covering the period 1 January 

 through 31 December 1995. It is being submitted to 

 Congress pursuant to section 204 of the Marine 

 Mammal Protection Act of 1972. 



Established under Title II of the Act, the Marine 

 Mammal Commission is an independent agency of the 

 Executive Branch. It is charged with developing, 

 reviewing, and making recommendations on the 

 actions and policies of all Federal agencies with 

 respect to marine mammal protection and conservation 

 and with carrying out a research program. 



Personnel 



The Commission consists of three part-time Com- 

 missioners appointed by the President. The Marine 

 Mammal Protection Act requires that Commissioners 

 be knowledgeable in marine ecology and resource 

 management. At the end of 1995 the Commissioners 

 were John E. Reynolds, III, Ph.D., (Chairman), 

 Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida; Paul K. 

 Dayton, Ph.D., Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 

 La Jolla, California; and Vera Alexander, Ph.D., 

 University of Alaska, Fairbanks. During 1995 Jack 

 W. Lentfer, Homer, Alaska, completed his term of 

 service on the Commission. 



The Commission's full-time staff members are 

 John R. Twiss, Jr., Executive Director; Robert J. 

 Hofman, Ph.D., Scientific Program Director; David 

 W. Laist, Policy and Program Analyst; Michael L. 

 Gosliner, General Counsel; Gregory K. Silber, Ph.D., 

 Deputy Scientific Program Director; Alison G. Kirk, 

 Permit Officer; Nancy L. Shaw, Administrative Offi- 

 cer; Lisa R. Jackson, Staff Assistant in charge of 

 publications; and Darel E. Jordan and Susan E. 

 Holcombe, Staff Assistants. Anne K. Kiley served as 

 Administrative Officer from 1990 to 1995, when she 

 moved from the area. 



The Commission Chairman, with the concurrence 

 of other Commissioners, appoints persons to the nine- 

 member Committee of Scientific Advisors on Marine 

 Mammals. Committee members must by statute be 

 scientists who are knowledgeable in marine ecology 

 and marine mammal affairs. At the end of 1995 its 

 members were Robert L. Brownell, Jr., Ph.D., 

 (Chairman), National Marine Fisheries Service, La 

 Jolla, California; Daryl J. Boness, Ph.D., Smithsonian 

 Institution, Washington, D.C.; Daryl P. Domning, 

 Ph.D., Howard University, Washington, D.C.; Joseph 

 R. Geraci, V.M.D., Ph.D., National Aquarium, 

 Baltimore, Maryland; Steven K. Katona, Ph.D., 

 College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine; Lloyd F. 

 Lowry, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Fair- 

 banks; Bruce R. Mate, Ph.D., Oregon State Universi- 

 ty, Newport; Jeanette A. Thomas, Ph.D., Western 

 Illinois University, Macomb; and Judith E. Zeh, 

 Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle. 



During 1995 Marc Mangel, Ph.D., University of 

 California, Davis; William Medway, D.V.M., Ph.D., 

 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; and Tim D. 

 Smith, Ph.D., National Marine Fisheries Service, 

 Woods Hole, Massachusetts, completed their terms of 

 service on the Committee. 



During 1995 Mr. Caleb Pungowiyi, President of 

 the Inuit Circumpolar Conference and resident of 

 Anchorage and Kotzebue, Alaska, served as Special 

 Advisor to the Marine Mammal Commission on 



Native Affairs. 



Funding 



Appropriations to the Marine Mammal Commis- 

 sion's in the past five fiscal years have been: 

 FY 1991, $1,153,000; FY 1992, $1,250,000; 

 FY 1993, $1,260,000; FY 1994, $1,290,000; and 

 FY 1995, $1,384,000. As of 31 December 1995 the 

 Commission's appropriation for FY 1996 had not yet 

 been determined. 



