20. Whaling at Greenland

(from "Chairman's Report of the Twelfth Meeting")


The Danish Commissioner sought guidance on certain points affecting whaling off Greenland and the Commission gave their views as follows:-

(1) Small boats armed with small harpoons and used for the taking of minke whales would be whale catchers under Article II of the Convention and would therefore come under Article I(2).
(2) All whales were covered by the wording of the Convention, but individual species when named in the Schedule to the Convention were subject to specific conservation measures.
(3) Paragraphs 2, 3, 4 and 6 of the Schedule applied to all methods for the taking or killing or attempted taking or killing of whales.

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