[Copy of letter received with accession no. 000724]


                                           May 2nd, 2002
                                      Our file: 6455-3
                                      Request : R200212202



  To: Steven Rutz
      N.O.D.C.
      Silver Spring, MD
      USA. 20910

  From:  Roger Menard
         M.E.D.S./DFO
         Ottawa, Ontario


  Subject:  Drifting Buoy data, 2001


   Dear Steve:

   Please find enclosed a CD containing the drifting buoy data
   for 2001 in N.O.D.C. (ASCII) format as part of our annual
   exchange. The files have been "zipped".  Hoping that everything
   will be staisfactory,

   Yours truly,


   (signed)


   Roger Menard
   M.E.D.S. / DFO
   12082 - 200 Kent St.
   Ottawa, Ontario
   Canada.  K1A 0E6
   (613) 990-0251

   menard@meds-sdmm.dfo-mpo.gc.ca