16. Catchers Functioning as Factory Ships off the African Coast (1971)

16. Catchers Functioning as Factory Ships off the African Coast

(from "Chairman's Report of the Twenty-Third Meeting")

The South African delegation drew attention to the action the South African Government had taken to control the activities of these catchers and urged the Commission to make a direct approach to the countries whose harbours were being used by them to take similar action. The Commission agreed that the countries concerned should be informed of the position and that it should be suggested to them that these vessels should be denied transshipping facilities. The United Kingdom delegate reported on the measures that his Government was taking to deal with one of these ships including the appointment of a whaling inspector who, with the co-operation of the South African Government, would investigate the vessel.