15. Appeal to Chile and Peru
(from "Chairman's Report of the Seventeenth Meeting")
In relation to the conservation of sperm whale stocks the Commission
considered a recommendation of the Scientific Committee that appeals should be
made to Chile and Peru to adhere to the 1946 Convention and in any case to
observe the Commission's minimum size-limits for sperm whales and to continue
to supply complete data to the Bureau of International Whaling Statistics.
As a result the Commissioner for Australia, seconded by the Commissioner for
the United States of America made a recommendation that the Commission appeals
to Chile and Peru to adhere to the 1946 Convention and that in the meantime
they observe the minimum lengths applying to sperm whales and continue to
supply complete statistical data to the Bureau of International Whaling
Statistics. The recommendation was carried without any objection.
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