B-13 



is meant by 



coordination with the International Whaling Commission and 

 the sealing Convention and now this particular region would 

 oe coordinated with tnose two. 



In particular, we're concerned with the development at 

 the present time of whales as a food resource for the future. 

 In our view, it is a remarl^ably available resource; and the 

 use of krill, for its own purposes, might have a rather 

 serious effect. Therefore, coordination of those two par- 

 ticular bodies — that would be particularly important. 



Finally, I will mention on this point the problem of 

 implementing any regime, once it's begun -- developed, es- 

 tablished -- it will take quite a number of years before the 

 instrument would be ratified. And at the same time, accord- 

 ing to the EIS, within 20 years' time, krill could be over- 

 exploited. So I think this is another problem that might 

 better be addressed more specifically in terms of what kind 

 of very strong interim measures would be taken so that we 

 could avoid that possibility of exploitation. 



THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you. 



MR. KAUFMAN: Mr. Chairman, My name is Milton Kaufman. 

 I'm the President of Monitor, Incorporated, a U.S. consortium 

 of environmentalists concerned with conservation and preser- 

 vation of marine mammals, and President of Monitor Inter- 

 national, a revolving consortium of international conserva- 

 tion groups. 



I'd like to identify myself with the comments that have 

 been made by the International Institute for Environment and 

 Development and the Institute at the Center for Law and Social 

 Policy and Dr. Buchsbaum's comments. 



I might add, in identification of Dr. Buchsbaura, that 

 he is the Chairman of Monitor International's Committee. 



I won't repeat the points that have been made by the 

 other speakers in the interests of time. I have one point 

 that I would like to make, which I don't think has been 

 really touched on this afternoon; and that relates to the 

 relationship of the international program of the Marine 

 Mamm.al Protection Act of 1972 to the evolving United States 

 position we'll be taking in the negotiations on the inter- 

 national regime. 



