5. Review of Previous Season's Catch
(from "Chairman's Report of the Seventeenth Meeting")
It was pointed out by Mr. Vangstein that he had little to add to the oral
report made to the Special Meeting, but he emphasized that, because reports
from seven factory ships and two land stations had not been received until the
3rd June, it had not been possible to complete the usual surveys of catch and
production in the Antarctic last season.
To remedy such a state of affairs expeditions should send in their reports to
the Bureau of International Whaling Statistics not later than the 15th of May.
An important change in last season's catches referred to those of the sperm
whale made by factory ships on their way to and from the Antarctic whaling
grounds but actually outside the Antarctic limits. Last season this catch was
5,595 whales compared with 3,600 in 1963/64.
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