18. Sanctuary and Length of Antarctic Season
(from "Chairman's Report of the Eighteenth Meeting")
On a proposal of the Technical Committee which was seconded by the Commissioner
for Japan, the Commission decided unanimously to keep open the Sanctuary in
the season 1966/67.
The Technical Committee also proposed that the opening date for the baleen
whale season should remain as before; this was seconded by the Commissioners
for Japan and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and was carried
unanimously by the Commission.
The closing date was also unaltered following the Technical Committee's
recommendation, seconded by the Commissioner for Japan, and a unanimous vote
by the Commission.
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