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INTEnilM ABBANGEMENTS 



Sec. 302. (a) After the effective date of this title, (1) no North Pacific fur 

 seal may be killed to fill the United States quota under the terms of the North 

 Pacific Fur Seal Convention; (2) no skin or parts thereof of any such fur seal 

 may be imported into the United States or introduced into initersttate com- 

 merce; and (3) any agreement under section 104 of the Fur Seal Act of 1966 

 for the processing of fur seal skins in any State other than Alaska shaU be 

 terminated. 



(b) To honor our treaty comimitments, for each calendar year after the 

 effective date of this title and before the expiration of the North Pacific Fur 

 Seal Convention, Japan and Canada shall each be given the option of receiving 

 an amount equal to the average annual dollar value of 15 per centum of the 

 fur seal kill made during the most recent five-year period ; or taking nine 

 thousand skins to be shipped directly from the Pribilof Islands to that country. 

 If Japan or Canada elects to take the skins, 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 female .seals and no .seal under one year of 

 age shall be killed. 



ESTABLISHMENT OF PBIBILOF SEAL EOOKEmY 



Sec. 303. The Pribiof Islands are hereby designated the National Seal Rookery 

 Preserve and Bird Sanctuary and shall be administered by the Secretary of the 

 Interior in accordance with the laws relating to national wildlife refuges; and 

 the native Aleuts shall be given the opportunity to be the rangers and guides 

 for this purpose, and they shall be given whatever training necessary for these 

 jobs. 



PBIBILOF ISLANDS COMMISSION 



Sec. 304. The President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall ap- 

 'point a Oomjnission 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 na- 

 tives, and it shall include the Secretaries or their designates from the Depart- 

 ments of State, Treasury, and Commerce, the Administrator of the Small Business 

 Administration, the Governor of Alaska, and two independent .scientists in the 

 fields of ocean biology and ecology. 



BE3>EALEB 



Sec. 305. Such provisions of the Fur Seal Act of 1966 which are inconsistent 

 herewith are hereby repealed. 



[H R. 10420, H.R. 10814, »2d Cong., first sess.] 



BILLS To protect marine mammals ; to establish a Marine Mammal Commission ; and for 



other purposes 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States 

 of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Marine 

 Mammal Protection Act of 1971". 



FINDINGS AND DECLABATION OF POLICY 



Sec. 2. The Congress finds that — 



( 1 ) certain species and population stocks of marine mammals are, or may 

 be, in danger of disappearance as a result of man's activities ; 



(2) such species and population stocks should not be permitted to diminish 

 beyond the point at which they can maintain that equilibrium at which they 

 may be managed on an optimum sustained yield basis, and measures should 

 be immediately taken to replenish any species or population stock which 

 has already diminished beyond that point ; 



(3) there is inadequate knowledge of the population dynamics of such 

 marine mammals and of the factors which bear upon their ability to re- 

 produce themselves successfully ; 



(4) negotiations should be undertaken, as soon as i)Ossible to encour- 

 age the development of international arrangements for research on, and 

 conservation of, marine mammals ; and 



