List of Figures 



Figure 1 . Right whale found entangled in lobster fishing gear in 



Cape Cod Bay on 14 September 1998 7 



Figure 2. Unidentified fishing gear being removed from a right whale 



found entangled in Cape Cod Bay on 24 July 1998 17 



Figure 3. Management zones under the Gulf of Maine harbor porpoise take 



reduction plan and other related management plans 40 



Figure 4. The Hawaiian Archipelago 49 



Figure 5. Adult male Hawaiian monk seal found entangled in derelict trawl 



net on Laysan Island, 23 July 1998 55 



Figure 6. A Steller sea lion rookery on Ugamak Island in the Aleutians 



illustrates the decline of the population over a 17-year period 59 



Figure 7. Fishery management areas and catcher vessel operation area in 



the Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, and Gulf of Alaska regions 61 



Figure 8. Range and breeding islands of the northern fur seal 67 



Figure 9. Range of the Pacific walrus 70 



Figure 10. Ranges of the Beaufort Sea stock and Bering-Chukchi Seas 



stock of polar bears 77 



Figure 1 1 . Manatee with healed propeller wounds 95 



Figure 12. Florida manatees in a thermal outfall at a power plant in 



Riviera Beach, Florida 97 



Figure 13. Crabeater seals, the most abundant marine mammal in the world, 



rest on Antarctic ice floes 142 



Figure 14. Mass stranding of long-finned pilot whales on Cape Cod in 1990 159 



Figure 15. Process by which permit applications to take 



marine mammals are reviewed 187 



Figure 16. Illegal and risky feeding of wild bottlenose dolphin off Florida 189 



IV 



