17. Limit for Daily Notification of Catch
(from "Chairman's Report of the Seventeenth Meeting")
At the time this meeting commenced Paragraph 8(c) of the Schedule to the
Convention gave the number of blue whale units caught in the Antarctic after
which daily records of catches must be sent to the Bureau of International
Whaling Statistics at Sandefjord, Norway as 9,000 and referred to the 1963/64
catch.
This allowed the Bureau to indicate to the factory ships the day when the
total quota for 1963/64 had been reached.
For the future, however, it was proposed by the Commissioner for Australia and
seconded by the Commissioner for Japan that Paragraph 8(c) of the Schedule
should be changed by the deletion of "9,000" in the third from the last line
and its replacement by the words "85 per cent of whatever total catch limit
was imposed by the Commission".
This proposal was carried without dissent.
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