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(2) with a warrant or other process or without a warrant, if he has reason- 

 able cause to believe that a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United 

 States or any person on board is in violation of any provision of this title 

 or the regulations issued thereunder, to search such vessel and to arrest 



such person. . . ,. ,. 



(e) Such person so authorized may seize any vessel subject to the jurisdiction 

 of the United States, together with its tackle, apparel, furniture, appurtenances, 

 cargo and stores, used or employed contrary to the provisions of this title or the 

 regulations issued hereunder or which it reasonably appears has been used or 

 employed contrary to the provisions of this title or the regulations issued here- 

 under. •, „ 



(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 Law 89-702 is hereby repealed.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 — North Pacific Fub Seals 



TEBMINATION OF NORTH PACIFIC FUB SEAL CONVENTION 



Sec. 301. It is the sense of the Congress that the North Pacific Fur Seal Con- 

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

 termination date in 1975, and that the said Convention should be permitted to 

 expire in 1976. 



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

 immediately notify the other parties to the Convention that the United States 

 does no intend to extend its life beyond 1976. 



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

 mediately initiate negotiations with the parties to the Convention and any other 

 interested 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. 



INTERIM ARRANGEMENTS 



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

 shall ibe 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 will 

 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 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 SE14.L ROOKERY 



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. 



