[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 50, Volume 7]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 50CFR216.15]



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                    TITLE 50--WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES

 

  CHAPTER II--NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE, NATIONAL OCEANIC AND 

           ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

 

PART 216_REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE TAKING AND IMPORTING OF MARINE MAMMALS

--Table of Contents

 

                         Subpart B_Prohibitions

 

Sec. 216.15  Depleted species.



    The following species or population stocks have been designated by 

the Assistant Administrator as depleted under the provisions of the 

MMPA.

    (a) Hawaiian monk seal (Monachus schauinslandi).

    (b) Bowhead whale (Balaena mystic e tus).

    (c) North Pacific fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus). Pribilof Island 

population.

    (d) Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops trunca tus), coastal-migratory 

stock along the U.S. mid-Atlantic coast.

    (e) Eastern spinner dolphin (Stenella longirostris orientalis).

    (f) Northeastern offshore spotted dolphin (Stenella attenuata).

    (g) Cook Inlet, Alaska, stock of beluga whales (Delphinapterus 

leucas). The stock includes all beluga whales occurring in waters of the 

Gulf of Alaska north of 58[deg] North latitude including, but not 

limited to, Cook Inlet, Kamishak Bay, Chinitna Bay, Tuxedni Bay, Prince 

William Sound, Yakutat Bay, Shelikof Strait, and off Kodiak Island and 

freshwater tributaries to these waters.

    (h) Eastern North Pacific Southern Resident stock of killer whales 

(Orcinus orca). The stock includes all resident killer whales in pods J, 

K, and L in the waters of, but not limited to, the inland waterways of 

southern British Columbia and Washington, including the Georgia Strait, 

the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and Puget Sound.

    (i) AT1 stock of killer whales (Orcinus orca). The stock includes 

all killer whales belonging to the AT1 group of transient killer whales 

occurring primarily in waters of Prince William Sound, Resurrection Bay, 

and the Kenai Fjords region of Alaska.



[53 FR 17899, May 18, 1988, as amended at 58 FR 17791, Apr. 6, 1993; 58 

FR 45074, Aug. 26, 1993; 58 FR 58297, Nov. 1, 1993; 59 FR 50376, Oct. 3, 

1994; 65 FR 34597, May 31, 2000; 68 FR 31983, May 29, 2003; 69 FR 31324, 

June 3, 2004]