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Mr. Leogett. Did you requeal that the regulation include that 

 provision? 



Colonel Kaufman. We have testified on that, sir, many times. 



Mr. Leogett. All i-iirlit . 



Colonel Kaufman. We talked to the industry in Seattle, and here 

 in Washington. 



Thank you. sir. 



Mr. Leogett. All right, thank you very much. 



Now. I think at this point, it might be helpful to have the position 

 of the industry, and if all the industry people, including the labor 

 representatives, Mr. Royal, Mr. Felando, Mr. Mulligan, Mr._L.ind- 

 S ey — he may have had to go— Mr. Drozak. the Seafarers Union, if 

 all of you could approach the witness table at this point, I would 

 appreciate it. 



All right, let me see, from right to left : Mr. Mulligan, Mr. Royal, 

 Mr. Alverson. Mr. Drozak, Mr. Felando. and Captain Madina. 



Jack Lindsey indicated he couldn't stay, and I gave him leave to 

 file a statement. He wanted to make a statement on consumer impli- 

 cations of what we are doing here today. 



So, gentlemen, do you have any prepared statements? Mr. Drozak 

 does, and your statement will appear perhaps first in the record at 

 this point. You can select among yourselves who would care to talk 

 first. 



[The following was submitted for the record :] 



Statement of Frank Drozak, Executive Vice President, Seafarers 

 International Union of North America, AFL-CIO 



Mr. Chairman, the Seafarers International Union of North America, AFL- 

 CIO, appreciates the opportunity to present its views on the need to amend 

 the Marine Mammal Protection Act. The Seafarers International Union, 

 through its affiliates, the Fishermen's Union of America and the United Can- 

 nery and Industrial Workers of the Pacific, represents the great majority of 

 American fishermen and cannery workers involved in the U.S. tuna industry. 



I have seated with me Steve Edney, who is president of the United Cannery 

 Union as well as chairman of the Fish and Cannery Conference of the SIU. 



We are deeply concerned over the adverse impact the Marine Mammal 

 Protection Act has had on the U.S. tuna industry and its workers. We believe 

 that neither the Congresss nor our industry foresaw the havoc this law has 

 created nor the roadblocks it has placed in the way of effective tuna fishing 

 operations. 



This chaotic situation has climaxed in recent days in the U.S. tuna fleet 

 returning to port because it cannot fish economically and our domestic can- 

 neries facing uncertainties over how long stocks of tuna will be available. 



The Seafarers Union believes that unless this law is amended to provide 

 for rational regulation of the tuna industry, U.S. tuna vessels and canneries 

 may be forced out of the United States. In the process we would lose an 

 important food industry and the thousands of jobs it produces at sea and on 

 shore. 



I think the record is clear that' only U.S. fishermen have engaged in por- 

 poise rescue efforts designed to meet the act's requirements. In many cases, 

 U.S. fishermen have engaged in hazardous attempts to save porpoise caught in 

 the nets. Foreign boats make no such efforts to save porpoise, and today the 

 entire foreign fleet is at sea taking tuna by methods which the U.S. fleet is 

 prohibited from using. 



Wo believe that the evidence overwhelmingly points up the need for this 1 

 committee and the Congress to act on a priority basis to amend the act. Each 

 day we delay, the economic and employment losses in the tuna industrv grow. 



It should be clear to all that by forcing the U.S. tuna fleet into port, the 

 Marine Mammal Act has attained exactly the opposite goal it was designed to 



