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RENEWAL OF PRESENT CONVENTION 



Sec. 403. If such treaty cannot be siic?cessfully negotiated prior to the expiration 

 date of the existing North Pacific Fur Seal Convention, nothing herein shall 

 preclude the renegotiation and renewal of said present convention, and in fact, 

 to preclude the possibility of a return to pelagic sealing, such present convention 

 should be renewed on or before its expiration date. 



HUMANE METHODS 



Sec. 404. If the only recourse is to renew the convention as stipulated in section 

 403, every effort shall be made to see that those seals killed under the provisions 

 of this Act shall be killed by the most modem, rapid, and humane methods of 

 rendering the seals unconscious. 



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Sec. 405. The Secretary of Commerce shall report his findings and efforts under 

 section 404 to the Congress within six months of the application of section 404. 



establishment of pbibilof seal bookeby 



Sec 406. The Pribilof Islands shall be designated a National Seal Rookery 

 Preserve and Bird Sanctuary under the Department of Interior ; and the native 

 Aleuts shall be trained and employed for any jobs to be created thereunder. 



PBIBILOF islands COMMISSION 



Sec. 407. The President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall ap- 

 point a Commission to help in the transfer of the Pribilof Islands from a place of 

 killing into a preserve, to help promote tourism, and to develop an economy on 

 the island for the Aleuts to take the place of their participation in the slaughter 

 of the seals. 



The Commission shall be comprised of a number of Pribilof Aleut natives, and 

 it shall include the Secretaries or their designates from the Departments of State, 

 Treasury, Commerce, the Administrator of the Small Business Administration, 

 the Governor of Alaska, and two independent scientists in the fields of ocean 

 biology and ecology. 



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Sec. 408. Such provisions of the Fur Seal Act of 1966 which are inconsistent 

 herewith are hereby repealed. 



[H. Com. Res. 77, H. Con. Res. 173, 92d Cong., first sess.] 

 CONCUBBENT RESOLUTION 



Whereas the Congress recognizes that an international convention between the 

 United States, Canada, Japan, and Russia regulates the harvesting and number 

 of Northern fur seals in the Bering Sea ; and 



Whereas the Congress recognizes that such convention has succeeded in main- 

 taining a stabilized balance of Northern fur seals ; and 



Whereas the Congress recognizes that such convention has thereby prevented 

 the extinction of the Northern fur seal ; and 



Whereas the Congress further recognizes that the present harvesting is con- 

 ducted in a brutal manner by the clubbing of the seals, which renders the seals 

 unconscious but not dead : Now, therefore, be it 



Resolved hy the House of Representatives {the Senate concurring) , That it is 

 the sense of the Congress of the United States that the Secretary of the Interior 

 shall prescribe and shall implement with all possible speed and urgency regula- 

 tions for the harvesting of Northern fur seals which insure that the seals are 

 quickly and painlessly killed before skinning. 



Further, that appropriate and effective penalties be prescribed by the Secre- 

 tary of the Interior for violation of the regulations which he shall prescribe and 

 implement in accordance with this resolution. 



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