14. COMMISSION'S COMPETENCE TO SET CATCH LIMITS FOR BAIRD'S BEAKED WHALE
IN THE NORTH PACIFIC
(from "Chairman's Report of the Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting")
The Chairman of the Technical Committee recalled that this subject had been
discussed in the Commission for several years but no new elements had been
introduced.
In the absence of discussion at the present session it was agreed to retain
the item on the agenda for next year.
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