5. Address of Welcome
(from "Chairman's Report of the Fifteenth Meeting")
The Commission was addressed by Mr. R.C. Brooman-White (Parliamentary
Under-Secretary of State for Scotland).
Mr. Brooman-White referred to the increased efficiency in the methods used in
whaling and the danger this is to the whale stock if anything is to be
preserved for the future.
Drastic action to conserve the stocks would have a serious effect on the
economic prospects of the whaling fleets, but would have to be taken if
whaling were not to become negligible or nil.
He welcomed the agreement in the International Observer Scheme which he
learned had been reached by the Antarctic pelagic whaling countries.
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