9. Blue-Whale-Unit
(from "Chairman's Report of the Twenty-Third Meeting")
The Scientific Committee urged the replacement of the blue-whale-unit for
fixing catch limits in the Antarctic by limits for each separate species as
the most effective means of ensuring that the catch of each species will be
at a level that will not result in a further decline in the stock.
Procedural difficulties prevented such a change in the Schedule at this
meeting but the three Antarctic whaling countries (Japan, Norway and USSR)
agreed to meet in advance of the 1972 meeting to make arrangements to
establish quotas by species for the 1972/73 Antarctic season and to include
this item on the agenda for the next annual meeting of the Commission.
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