A collection of letters, memos, news clippings & government reports. Examples are: One letter (12/2/7) from Bill Harrington (Washington Representative, City of San Diego) to Congressman Wilson & attached 5 page copy of “Testimony by Mayor Pete Wilson to the National Marine Fisheries Service on the Porpoise Kill Quota—November 23, 1976;” stapled copies of corresp. (Oct.-Nov. 1976) from Congressman Wilson & William E. Simon (Chairman, Economic Policy Board) re/ the controversy over porpoise kill ratios projected for 1977 by law; 1 letter (11/8/76) from Sidney R. Galler (Dep. Asst. Sec. for Environ. Affairs, U.S. Dept. of Commerce) re/ draft environmental impact statements & fishery management for several species; 1 photocopy of “Proposed Rules…. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration … Marine Mammals Incident Take in Court of Yellowfin Tuna Purse Seine Fishing Operations; Hearing,” Federal Register, Vol. 41, No. 200, October 14, 1976, pp. 45015-45019; 1 letter from Howard W. Pollock (NOAA Deputy Administrator) to Congressman Wilson re/ notification of limiting porpoise kills to 70,000 only weeks before Election Day and possible repercussions; stapled copies of corresp. (Sept.-Oct. 1976) from Mansfield D. Sprague (Counsellor to the Secretary for Congressional Affairs, U.S. Dept. of Commerce), Congressman Wilson, memorandums from John Mulligan & from George Steele to Ed Terrar re/ Wilson & his staff offering suggestions to Secretary of Commerce Elliot Richardson outlining “several courses of action to assure the continuation of tuna fishing after January 1, 1977;” 1 copy of William McClosky, Jr., “Sea Sense—The 200-Mile Fishing Limit United States Girds for Jurisdiction,” Oceans, September 1976, pp. 60-63 re/ “On March 1, 1977, ready or not, the United States will begin to exercise its jurisdiction over the 200-mile extended fisheries zone around its coast;” 1 copy of “Statement by Dr. Robert M. White Administrator National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the Department of Commerce before the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation…House of Repre-sentatives September 29, 1976” (16 pp.); stapled packet containing corresp. (Mar.-Sept. 1976) from Congressman Wilson (a five page “advisory notice to maritime community concerning Mexico’s establishment of a 200-mile exclusive economic zone” from Captain T. H. Rutledge, Chief, Congressional Affairs, U.S. Coast Guard), Robert J. McCloskey (Asst. Sec. for Congressional Relations, Dept. of State), constituent F.C. Taylor & attached photocopy of news item from the San Diego Evening Tribune (3/12/76) discussing pleasure boat skipper Alfred Moravec who was “arrested at gun-point for [illegally] fishing in Mexican waters and his boat was held for six weeks;” 1 note (9/28/76) from Roger F. Honberger (County of S.D.) to Congressman Wilson with attached copy of Bruce R. Lane, Jr., “The Tuna War: An Analysis,” Ocean Policy Project, Occasional Paper Series Number 8, John Hopkins University, August 1976 (42 pp.); 1 letter (8/19/76) from constituent Ms Diane Smith & Wilson’s reply (8/25/76) re/ urging Wilson “to vote against H.R. 13865” which “would overturn the court decision” restricting porpoise kills; 1 letter (8/11/76) from Congressman Wilson to Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder & attached letter (7/6/76) from August Felando (Gen. Manager, Am. Tunaboat Assoc.) re/ the proposed transfer of “a former U.S. Navy LST be provided the Ecuadorian Navy” & Wilson’s and Schroeder’s opposition to this transfer; stapled copies of Memorandums to Wilson from Ed Terrar (May 27 & Aug. 2 , 1976) re/ “A Proposal To Transfer LST’s to the Government of Ecuador;” 1 letter (5/26/76) from constituent Virginia Taylor & Wilson’s reply (6/17/76) re/ objecting “to Judge Charles R. Richey’s decision to ban U.S. commercial fishermen from using porpoise to attract and catch tuna;” 1 letter (7/26/76) from Congressman B.F. Sisk to Wilson & attached 1 page photocopy of “Current Economic Impact of Cannery Strike 7-19 to 7-24-76;” 1 copy of a letter (n.d.) from Congressman Wilson discussing Judge Richey’s decision, appellate proceedings and other related matters for the tuna industry; 1 letter (n.d.) from La Mesa resident Scott Houston, Congressman Wilson’s reply (7/12/76) as well as CA Assemblyman Bob Wilson’s reply to Houston re/ “the need to preserve the oceans and fish;” photocopy of a letter (7/9/76) from August Felando (Am. Tuna Assoc.) to Editor, Hartford Currant, re/ a “response to your editorial dated June 13, 1976… ‘What has the U.S. tuna fleet done to decrease porpoise mortality?’”; 1 copy of pp. H7178-H7179 of the Congressional Record-House for July 1, 1976 re/ “Porpoises Die For Tuna Salad.”