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ISSAQUAH, WASH., April 10, 1972. Senator WARREN G. MAGNUSON, Chairman, Senate Commerce Committee, Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C.

DEAR SENATOR MAGNUSON: What is to become of the hundreds of thousands of dolphins, the most intelligent mammal next to man, that are drowned each year in the callous nets of the commercial fisherman? How cruel and myopic we must be to allow them to die in such terror, gasping for air, and trying to help each other. (They are the only mammals, besides man, who are so attached to each other that they try to help an injured member of their school and often will not leave him even it it means death for themselves.)

I so hope that you will vote for Senator Harrison Williams' bill, S. 2871, which includes a ten year moratorium on commercial killing of sea mammals, a ban on imports of their parts, and placement of jurisdiction in the Department of the Interior; and David and I both wish to urge your support for a proposal made by Senators Williams and Humphrey for a one year cutoff date after which no dolphin or porpoise may be killed incidental to the catching of tuna fish. Even a year while these beautiful animals die needlessly and wastefully seems too long.

And now a post script on the killing of sea mammals. Perhaps the native peoples of Alaska should be excluded from the moratorium on their killing. This week-end I attended the Northwest Wilderness Conference here in Seattle, and was much impressed with the speech of Nels A. Anderson of the Rural Alaska Community Action Program. He stated that many of Alaska's rural native peoples still live a subsistance way of life dependent on their hunting of sea mammals, that their use of these mammals is not wasteful, and that denial of their right to hunt these mammals would make them (the native peoples) an endangered species. As a former Alaskan, I tend to agree with him, although I forgot to mention this point in my previous letter to Senator Hollings of South Carolina when he was holding hearings on this subject. Let us leave these native

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