Final Environmental Impact Statement on the Interim Convention on Conservation of North Pacific Fur SealsDepartment of State, 1985 - 196 pages |
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Alaska Aleutian Island Aleuts alternative amended annual Article Bering Sea Commander Islands commercial harvest Conservation of North Convention on Conservation DEIS fails draft EIS Draft Environmental Impact eastern Bering Sea economic Environmental Impact Statement estimated extending the Convention Federal females final EIS Fund for Animals Fur Seal Act Fur Seal Commission fur seal harvest fur seal herd fur seal population George Island increase Interim Convention island residents Japan jurisdiction Marine Fisheries Service marine mammals MMPA modifications mortality National Marine Fisheries natives NMFS North Pacific Fur North Pacific Ocean northern fur seal number of pups optimum sustainable population Pacific Fur Seals paragraph Party Governments Paul Island pelagic sealing percent population decline population levels Pribilof Islands proposed action Protocol renegotiation Robben Island San Miguel Island seal skins Secretary Section Standing Scientific Committee subsistence tion treaty United States Senate vessel Wildlife
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Page 4 - ... the primary objective of their management should be to maintain the health and stability of the marine ecosystem. Whenever consistent with this primary objective, it should be the goal to obtain an optimum sustainable population keeping in mind the optimum carrying capacity of the habitat.