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DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT

Room

Tollgate House Houlton Street Bristol BS2 9DJ

Telex 449321

Direct Line 0272-218

Switchboard 0272-218811

GTN 2074

Mr R Wilson

Fisheries II

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries

and Food

Great Westminster House

Horseferry Road, LONDON SW1P 2AE

Your reference

Our reference

Date

25 August 1988

Dear Renaud

IMPORT OF KILLER WHALE TO HONG KONG:

1.

POSSIBLE IWC IMPLICATIONS

I enclose a copy of a telex this Department has received from the Agriculture and Fisheries Department of the Hong Kong Government seeking advice on the possible implications of the IWC on a proposed importation of a killer whale into that country.

2. I would be most grateful for any advice you can provide on this so that I may respond to the Hong Kong authorities or alternatively you may prefer to reply to them direct.

Yours sincerely

Berod Sloto

JOHN ROBBINS

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Wildlife Division

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