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• monitoring and detecting driftnet and other fishing 

 activity in the North Pacific and elsewhere; 



• assessing fisheries stocks in EEZ waters; 



• transmitting data from and geolocating drifting mid-water 

 instrument packages; and 



• measuring open ocean rainfall rates. 



Demonstration projects for the first three - - global 

 warming, marine mammal studies, and driftnet fishing - - have 

 been or soon will be carried out. Several were funded through 

 the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program. 

 Although NOAA is not directly involved in some of these, their 

 results may point the way for other long-term applications. The 

 remaining three proposals have not been tested, but appear 

 technically feasible and worth further study. The lUSS system 

 clearly offers the potential for a range of civil applications, 

 and NOAA strongly supports its dual use. 



Ships 



NOAA and the Navy are cooperating in identifying ships that 

 can be utilized for civilian missions. NOAA has received three 

 former T-AGOS surveillance vessels for conversion to meet 



