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CONTENTS 



I . Introduction 1 



Background 1 



Personnel 1 



Funding 2 



II . Research and Studies Program 3 



Survey of Federally-Funded Marine Mammal 



Research 3 



Research Program Reviews, Workshops, and 



Planning Meetings 4 



Commission-Sponsored Research and Study 



Projects 5 



Special Research Concerns for Fiscal Year 1983.. 14 



III. International Aspects of Marine Mammal Protection 



and Conservation 15 



Conservation and Protection of Marine Mammals 



in the Southern Ocean 15 



International Whaling Commission 22 



Interim Convention on Conservation of 



North Pacific Fur Seals 28 



Convention on International Trade in Endangered 

 Species of Wild Fauna and Flora 31 



IV. Marine Mammal-Fisheries Interactions 33 



Columbia River Project 33 



California Coastal Project 36 



Bering Sea Workshop 37 



V. Incidental Take of Marine Mammals in the Course of 



Commercial Fishing Operations 38 



The Tuna-Porpoise Issue 38 



The Dall's Porpoise Issue 43 



VI . Species of Special Concern 4 7 



West Indian Manatee ( Trichechus manatus ) 47 



Hawaiian Monk Seal ( Monachus schauinslandi ) 54 



Southern Sea Otter ( Enhydra lutris ) 57 



Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus ) 60 



Humpback Whale ( Megaptera novaeangliae ) 64 



Right Whale (Eubalaena glacialis ) . . .TT 66 



Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) 66 



