11. The International Observer Scheme (1966)

11. The International Observer Scheme

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

The Scheme drawn up in 1962 expired at the end of the 1965/66 season and the Technical Committee proposed that the Chairman of the Commission should set up a working group to draw up the details of a new observer scheme to cover all whaling operations, both pelagic and land stations. The Commission unanimously accepted this proposal. In addition the Commissioner for Australia proposed that the Commission should recommend to the pelagic whaling countries that they should meet and implement as soon as possible the previous Scheme. This was seconded by the Commissioners for Norway and Japan and the motion was carried with ten votes in favour, one against and one abstention.