14. Land Stations

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


The Commission expressed concern at the numbers of whales being caught from land stations situated in non-member countries and decided to get in touch with those countries about the adoption of measures to secure the better protection of the stocks, particularly of blue and humpback whales.


15. Only two member countries, viz. South Africa and the United Kingdom, still carried on whaling operations from land stations in the Southern Hemisphere and the Commission agreed unanimously to recommend to those countries that they should continue to impose on catches from their land stations the voluntary limitations which they imposed in the previous year. This proposal was made by the Commissioner for Australia and seconded by the Commissioners for South Africa and the United Kingdom.


16. In addition the Commission agreed with one abstention that there should be a ban on the catching of blue whales between the Equator and 40° South Latitude. This motion was proposed by the Commissioner for Australia and seconded by the Commissioner for South Africa.

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