Whaling, Whale Oil, and Scrimshaw: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975 - 257 páginas |
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Página 186 - Act are to provide a means whereby the ecosystems upon which endangered species and threatened species depend may be conserved, to provide a program for the conservation of such endangered species and threatened species...
Página 101 - Agreement shall be construed to prevent the adoption or enforcement by any contracting party of measures: [....] (b) necessary to protect human, animal or plant life or health; [....] (g) relating to the conservation of exhaustible natural resources if such measures are made effective in conjunction with restrictions on domestic production or consumption.
Página 197 - US DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, BUREAU OF SPORT FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE, Washington, DC, March 2, 1964.
Página 18 - Considering that the history of whaling has seen overfishing of one area after another and of one species of whale after another to such a degree that it is essential to protect all species of whales from further overfishing...
Página 5 - President. (3) Upon receipt of any certification made under paragraph (1) or (2) , the President may direct the Secretary of the Treasury to prohibit the bringing or the importation into the United States of fish products...
Página 4 - When the Secretary of Commerce determines that nationals of a foreign country, directly or indirectly, are conducting fishing operations in a manner or under circumstances which diminish the effectiveness of an international fishery conservation program, the Secretary of Commerce shall certify such fact to the President.
Página 188 - ... (ii) Any purchaser of products or parts of marine mammals of the order Cetacea shall, within 90 days after the receipt of such products or parts, submit to the Secretary a report, in such form or manner as the Secretary may designate, specifying the quantity of such products or parts received, the name and address of the seller, a copy of the guaranty supplied pursuant to clause (i) of subparagraph (C), and the date on which such products or parts were received. Any such purchaser shall comply...
Página 229 - ... and the records required to be kept under subparagraph (A) of this paragraph, and to copy such records; and "(C) file such reports as the Secretary may require. "(3) The Secretary shall prescribe such regulations as are necessary and appropriate to carry out the purposes of this subsection.".
Página 18 - Recognizing that it is in the common interest to achieve the optimum level of whale stocks as rapidly as possible without causing widespread economic and nutritional distress...
Página 58 - Considering the recommendations of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, held in Stockholm in June 1972...