11. Antarctic Catch Limitation (1961)

11. Antarctic Catch Limitation

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

Of the four countries concerned under the Convention with the Antarctic blue whale unit catch limit suspension mentioned in Paragraph 7 above (Japan, Norway, the U.S.S.R. and the United Kingdom), Japan and the U.S.S.R. had objected to the suspension and were therefore working under the 15,000 blue whale unit limit, while Norway and the United Kingdom in the Convention and the Netherlands outside it were not operating under these restrictions. Nevertheless all these countries had responded to a resolution adopted at the Twelfth Meeting requesting them to impose, during the period of suspension of the Convention catch limit, national quotas on their expeditions at a level not greater than each adopted for the 1959/60 season. The Commission therefore resolved without dissent on the proposal of the Commissioner for New Zealand and seconded by the Commissioner for the United States of America that the Governments of Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, the U.S.S.R. and the United Kingdom should be reminded of the Twelfth Meeting resolution.