(Accession No. 0000149)

   [Copy of a letter which acompanied a CD-ROM containing year 1999 drifting buoy data]

   Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans
   Ottawa, Canada
   K1A 0E6
                                               Our file: 6455-3



   Douglas Hamilton
   N.O.D.C.
   Silver Spring, MD
   USA 20910


                      Subject: Drifting Buoy fata, 1999
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    Dear Doug:

   Please find enclosed a CD containg the drifting buoy data for 1999 in N.O.D.C
   (ASCII) format.  Hoping that everything will be satisfactory.


   Yours Truly,

   (signed)

   Roger Menard
   M.E.D.S.
   12082 - 200 Kent St.
   Ottawa, Ontario
   Canada  K1A 0E6
   (613) 990-0251
   menard@meds-sdmm.dfo-mpo.gc.ca