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Mr. KJETTH. I yield. 



Mr. Pelly. I tliink those of us on the committee who had a part 

 in the legislation to protect the endangered species would like to have 

 some sort of report back as to how effective it has been, and whether 

 we are geitting the cooperation of other nations. 



I think it is hig"My important that we have this in the record. 



Miss Wyler. I am sure you shall have it by tomorrow. 



(The information referred to was not received by the committee 

 at the time these hearings were printed. ) 



Mr. BiAGGi. Our next witness is Miss Alice Herrington, Friends of 

 Animals, New York City. 



STATEMENT OF ALICE HERRINGTON, FRIENDS OF ANIMALS, NEW 

 YORK CITY; ACCOMPANIED BY ROBERT C. McCANDLESS, COUN- 

 SEL, LEWIS REGENSTEIN, WASHINGTON COORDINATOR, AND 

 VICTOR LOSICK, CAMERAMAN AND FILM EDITOR 



Miss Herrington. Mr. Chairman, distinguished mem^bers of the 

 committee. I have prepared a very voluminous document. I think it is 

 pride of authorship and it warrants your reading it very carefully and 

 with your permission, I would like to have it put into the record in 



full. 



Mr. BiAGGi. We will put it into the record as though you have read 

 it, Miss Herrington, and you may proceed with other remarks. 



Miss Herrington. I would appreciate it since I have a great many 

 scientific quotations and quotations from government reports. 



I have asked Mr. McCandless, our counsel, to join me here at the 

 witness table in the event you have any questions about Mr. Pryor's 

 amendment today which we feel should pull the rug out from under 

 the criticism of this bill and let it go forward as an expression of the 

 enumerology. 



Now with your permission, Mr. Chairman, I will hand my state- 

 ment to your reporter so that it may be included in the record. 



Mr. BiAGGi. The reporter is instructed to copy the statement into 

 the record as though read. 



You may proceed. Miss Herrington. 



Miss Herrington. Thank you for this opportunity to speak for the 

 mammals of the oceans, to plead for the protection offered them by 

 H.K. 6558, the measure sponsored by Representative David Pryor 

 and cosponsored by a fifth of the Members of this body, and to 

 oppose H.R. 10420, the "management bill" introduced by Represent- 

 ative Glenn Anderson. 



To get the negativism out of the way first, I wish to explain our 

 opposition to H.R. 10i20. On its face, and admittedly, it is a "manage- 

 ment" bill. It provides that we set up a new and expensive bu- 

 reaucracy, to study, consult, and report to the old bureaucracy, the 

 Department of Commerce, which would be authorized to issue "per- 

 mits" for the "harvest" of the "managed" species. The large numbers 

 of people for whom I speak are very clearly and very strongly opposed 

 to "management" and "harvest." What we are for is very simple : We 

 believe that the ocean mammals should be left alone. They should be 

 neither harassed, killed, managed, nor harvegted. 



