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(f) Such person so authorized may seize, whenever and wherever found, all 

 ocean mammals or parts thereof taken or retained in violation of this title or the 

 regulations issued thereunder and shall dispose of them in accordance with such 

 regulations. 



Sec. 207. The Secretaries of State, Treasury, Interior, Commerce, and Trans- 

 portation are authorized to issue regulations to carry out the provisions of this 

 title. 



Sec. 208. Any person violating the provisions of this title or the regulations 

 issued thereunder shall on the first offense be fined not more than $5,000 or im- 

 prisoned not more than one year, or both ; on conviction of second and subsequent 

 offenses, the violator shall be fined not more than $10,000 or jailed for not less 

 than one nor more than three years, or both. 



Sec. 208. Title III (Protection of Sea Otters on the High Seas) of Public Law 

 89-702 is hereby repealed. 



Title III — Treiaties and Conventions 



NEGOTIATIONS FOR PROTECTTVE TREATIES 



Sec. 301. It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of State should imme- 

 diately initiate worldwide negotiations for the purpose of obtaining an interna- 

 tional agreement or agreements for the protection of all ocean mammals as 

 eniunerated in section 201 (a) . 



TO OUTLAW KILLING 



Sec. 302. Such treaties or conventions should seek to outlaw all killing of 

 these mammals for any reason. 



REPORT BY SECRETARY OF STATE 



Sec. 303. The Secretary should report in full his efforts xmder this title twelve 

 months from the date of enactment of this bill. 



Title IV — North Pacific Fur Seals 



TERMINATION OF NORTH PACIFIC FUR SEI4.L CONVENTION 



Sec. 401. It is the sense of the Congress that the North Pacific Fur Seal 

 Convention, signed on February 9, 1957, should not be continued after its current 

 termination date in 1976. 



Further, it is the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of State should 

 immediately initiate negotiations with the parties to the convention and any 

 other concerned States for the purpose of obtaining an international agreement 

 or agreements to ban all killing of North Pacific fur seals whether at sea or on 

 land. 



Such a treaty would take the place of the present convention and would take 

 effect immediately upon its signing. 



INTERIM ARRANGEMENTS 



Sec. 402. And until such treaty can be successfully negotiated, no further North 

 Pacific fur seals shall be killeki to fill the United States "quota" (70 per centum) 

 under the terms of the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention ; all skins or parts 

 thereof of the Alaskan fur seal shall be banned from import into the United 

 States or in interstate commerce between the States ; any agreement under section 

 104 of the Fur Seal Act of 1966 for the processing of skins in any State other 

 than Alaska shall be terminated. 



(b) To honor our treaty provisions, between the enactment of this Act and 

 the expiration of the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention, Japan and Canada 

 shall be given the option of taking the average dollar value (over the last five 

 years) of the 15 per centum of the kill to which they are entitled or to take 

 nine thousand skins each, to be shipped directly from the Pribilof Islands to those 

 countries. If Japan or Canada elects to take the skills, the killing in the Pribilofs 

 shall be done in the most humane manner and as close to the shore as possible 

 Further, to the extent practicable, such killings shall first be of old or crippled 

 bachelor seals and second of old or crippled femiale seals; no seal under one 

 year of age shall be killed. 



