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INTERIM ABBANGEMENTS 



Sec. 302. (a) After enactment of this Act, no further North Pacific fur seals 

 shall be killed 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 whidh they are entitled or to take nine thou- 

 sand skins each, to be shipped directly from the Pribilof Islands to those coun- 

 tries. 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 ; no seal under one year 

 of age shall be killed. 



ESTABLISHMENT OF PRIBILOF SEAL ROOKEBY 



Sec. 303. 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 given the opportunity to be the rangers and guides for this pur- 

 pose, and they shall be given whatever training necessary for these jobs. 



PEIBILOF ISLANDS COMMISSION 



Sec. 404. 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. 



bepealer 



Sec. 405. Such provisions of the Fur Seal Act of 1966 which are inconsistent 

 herewith are hereby repealed. 



[H.R. 8183, 92a Cong., first sess.] 



A BILL To protect ocean mammals, and for other purposes 



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

 of America in Congress assenibled, That this Act may be cited as the "Ocean 

 Mammal Protectwrn Act of 1971". 



Title I — Findings and Declarations op Policy 



FINDINGS AND DECLARATIONS OF POLICY 



Sec. 101. (a) The Congress finds that ocean mammals are being ruthlessly 

 pursued, harassed, and killed, both at sea and on land by hunters of many nations, 

 and further finds that many ocean mammals will become rare, if not extinct, 

 unless steps are taken to stop their slaughter. 



(b) It is hereby declared to be the public policy of the United States (1) to 

 protect all ocean mammals from harassment or slaughter; and (2) that negotia- 

 tions should be imdertaken with foreign governments and through interested 

 international organizations with a view to obtaining a worldwide ban on the 

 further slaughter of ocean mammals. 



