Pursuant to section 5 of the Marine Mammals Protection Act 1978, the Director-General of Conservation notifies that an application was received from Dr Padraig Duignan and Aurelie Castinel on 7 February 2006 to:
? export 25 tissue samples from New Zealand sea lions (Phocartos hookeri) to the Institute of Zoology, England, for the purpose of immune response research.
All samples were collected from animals that died of natural causes on the Auckland Islands.
Further details of the application can be obtained from Helen McConnell, Marine Conservation Officer, Marine Conservation Unit, Department of Conservation, P.O. Box 10-420, Wellington. Telephone: (04) 471 3062.
Any person wishing to make a submission on this application can do so by writing to the Manager, Marine Conservation Unit, within 28 days after publication of this notice.
Unless a person making a submission states to the contrary in the submission, that person will be deemed to give his/her consent to the release, under the Official Information Act 1982, of all the information in the submission.