[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 50, Volume 7]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
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 
 
                         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 mysticetus).
    (c) North Pacific fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus). Pribilof Island 
population.
    (d) Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus), 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]

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