List of Tables 



Table 1 . Marine mammal species and populations listed as endangered or threatened 

 under the Endangered Species Act and depleted under the Marine Mammal 

 Protection Act, as of 31 December 1998 4 



Table 2. IWC quotas and numbers of bowhead whales taken by Alaska Natives, 



1973-1998 26 



Table 3. Estimates of harbor porpoise bycatch in sink gillnet fisheries in the 

 Bay of Fundy (Canada), Gulf of Maine (U.S.), and off the 

 U.S. mid-Atlantic states, 1990-1998 37 



Table 4. Counts of adult and juvenile Steller sea lions observed at rookery and 

 haul-out trend sites in seven Alaska subareas during June and July 

 aerial surveys, 1976-1998 57 



Table 5. Subsistence harvest levels of northern fur seals in the Pribilof Islands, 



1985-1998 68 



Table 6. Estimated catches of Pacific walruses in Alaska and total reported catch 



of walruses in Russia, 1980-1997 73 



Table 7. Numbers of polar bears tagged during Alaska Native harvests, 1988-1998 .. 79 



Table 8. California sea otter population counts by the Fish and Wildlife Service 



and the California Department of Fish and Game, 1984-1998 87 



Table 9. Known manatee mortality in the southeastern United States (excluding 



Puerto Rico) reported through the manatee salvage and necropsy program, 

 1978-1998 93 



Table 10. Estimated incidental kill of dolphins in the tuna purse seine fishery 



in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, 1972-1998 114 



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