366 



EXPORT DATA SUPPLIED BY DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE-TOTAL DRESSED SEAL FURSKIN EXPORTS, INCLUDING 



FUR SEAL, ROCK SEAL AND HAIR SEAL 



Year Number skins Dollar value 



lofic 88,644 $6,055,144 



iSfi " •" 62,747 4,087,779 



iqS? ■ "■ 84,562 5,442,157 



,5b8 " " 85,858 5,901,127 



tSfio " " 75,011 3,926,145 



1970 " " 104,347 5,281,613 



i97rthroughJuiy:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::-:::-: -- 28,395 1,586,970 



Mr. Sharp. Mr. Chairman, I also have some suggested changes in 

 H.K. 10420 and with your permission, I will submit them to the 

 reporter. 



Mr. DiNGELL. Without objection, they will appear in the record at 

 this point. 



(The suggested changes to H.R. 10420 follow :) 



Suggested Changes in H.R. 10420 as Submitted by the Fur Conservation 



Institute of America 



1. Provision Requiring Negotiation of a New or Extended Northern Pacific 

 Seal Convention and International Conventions for Conservation of Other Ocean 

 Mammals. 



H.R. 10420 should be changed to the extent and in the respects necessary — 



(a) To require that well in advance of the expiration date of the Northern 

 Pacific Seal Convention in 1976, an extended (hopefully permanent) Convention 

 be negotiated by the Secretary of State, consistent with the findings and declara- 

 tions of policy set out in Section 2 of H.R. 10420, and with the advice and as- 

 sistance of the Secretaries of Commerce and Interior. 



(b) To require that within two years after adoption of the Act the Secretary 

 of State convene a meeting or meetings of representatives of appropriate nations 

 to consider conventions designed to conserve sea mammals other than fur seals. 



(c) To provide that prior to termination of the present Northern Pacific Seal 

 Convention and during the period of any new or extended Seal or other inter- 

 national convention relating to the Conservation of Ocean Mammals under the 

 terms of which an International body sets annual or other limitations on the 

 taking of the mammals involved, the Secretary shall have no power to set any 

 limitation on the taking of such mammals which is in derogation of such Con- 

 vention or of the limitations on taking established thereunder by the Interna- 

 tional body which is required by the Convention to establish limitations thereon. 



2. Provisions to he Modified as a Result of Suggestion Number 1. 



As a result of the incorixtration of provisions such as suggested in 1 above, ap- 

 propriate changes will have to be adopted in Sections 102, 103 and other 

 sections. Perhaps Sec. 107 dealing with "Exceptions" could be modified to except 

 from the provisions of the title all taking done pursuant to and in accordance 

 with any international convention to which the United States is a party. 



3. Changes to Assure that Limitations on Taking Which May be Preseribed by 

 the Secretary are Consistent ivith the Act. 



We suggested that in order to be doubly sure that the Secretary administering 

 the Act does so in accordance with the statement of policies set forth in Section 

 2, there be inserted in line 21 of H.R. 10420 as introduced by the original spon- 

 sors, after the word "shall" and before the word "prescribe" the words "consistent 

 with the findings and declaration of policies set out in Section 2." 



Jf. Changes in the Penalty Section. 



Section 104 which provides penalties for violation penalizes only violations 

 of the Act or "any regulation issued thereunder." Like the i>enalty section of 

 the Endangered Species Act (16 U.S.C.A. 668 cc-4), the section in the Ocean 

 Mammals Act should provide penalties for violation of the Act or of "any regu- 

 lation or permit issued thereunder." 



Penalty Section 104 provides penalties for violation, among other things, of 

 the prohibitions of Section 101. The latter section provides that except as pro- 

 vided in Section 102, 107 and 109 it is unlawful for any person or vessel subject to 



