RESOLVED, That the Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Environmental Law enforcement is hereby authorized and directed, subject to appropriation, to make an investigation and study of the North Atlantic Right Whale, including an assessment of the population of said whale, and the need for and the implications of establishing measures designed to protect such population. Said department shall report to the General Court the results of such investigation and study and its recommendations, if any, together with drafts of legislation necessary to carry its recommendations into effect by filing the same with the Clerk of the House of Representatives on or before the last Wednesday in June, nineteen hundred and eighty-eight.