17. Blue Whale Unit Limit
(from "Chairman's Report of the Eighteenth Meeting")
At the Seventeenth Meeting of the Commission a resolution was adopted reducing
the quota for the Antarctic season to 4,500 blue whale units for 1965/66.
It was also agreed that further reductions would be made for 1966/67 and
1967/68 that would ensure that the total catch for 1967/68 would be less
than the combined sustainable yields of the fin and sei whale stocks as
determined on the basis of scientific evidence.
During the Eighteenth Meeting the quota for 1966/67 was discussed in the light
of this resolution and the latest stock assessments.
It was finally proposed by the Technical Committee and unanimously agreed by
the Commission that in the 1966/67 season the Antarctic pelagic catch should
not exceed 3,500 blue whale units and that the total catch for 1967/68 should
be less than the combined sustainable yields of the fin and sei whale stocks
as determined on the basis of more precise scientific evidence.
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