TABLE 1: BALEEN WHALE STOCK CLASSIFICATIONS AND CATCH LIMITS+ (excluding Bryde's whales)

SEI
 MINKE
 FIN
 BLUE
 HUMPBACK
 RIGHT,
BOWHEAD,
PYGMY RIGHT
 GRAY
Clas. Cat. lim. Clas. Cat. lim. Clas. Cat. lim. Clas. Cat. lim. Clas. Cat. lim. Clas. Cat. lim. Clas. Cat. lim.
SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE - 1995/96 pelagic season and 1996 coastal season
AREA LONGITUDES
I 120°W - 60°W
PS
0
-
0
PS
0
PS
0
PS
0
PS
0
.
.
II 60°W - 0°
PS
0
-
0
PS
0
PS
0
PS
0
PS
0
.
.
III 0 - 70°E
PS
0
-
0
PS
0
PS
0
PS
0
PS
0
.
.
IV 70°E - 130°E
PS
0
-
0
PS
0
PS
0
PS
0
PS
0
.
.
V 130°E - 170°W
PS
0
-
0
PS
0
PS
0
PS
0
PS
0
.
.
VI 170°W - 120°W
PS
0
-
0
PS
0
PS
0
PS
0
PS
0
.
.
Total catch not to exceed:
0
0
0
0
0
0
NORTHERN HEMISPHERE - 1996 season
ARCTIC
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
PS
0
.
.
NORTH PACIFIC
Whole region
PS
0
.
.
PS
0
PS
0
PS
0
PS
0
.
.
Okhotsk Sea - West Pacific Stock
.
.
-
0
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Sea of Japan - Yellow Sea -
East China Sea Stock
.
.
PS
0
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Remainder
.
.
IMS
0
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Eastern Stock
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
SMS
1401
Western Stock
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
PS
0
NORTH ATLANTIC
Whole region
.
.
.
.
.
.
PS
0
PS
0
PS
0
.
.
West Greenland Stock
.
.
PS
0
-
192
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Newfoundland-Labrador Stock
.
.
.
.
-
0
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Canadian East Coast Stock
.
.
-
0
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Nova Scotia Stock
PS
0
.
.
PS
0
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Central Stock
.
.
-
122
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
East Greenland-Iceland Stock
.
.
.
.
SMS
0
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Iceland-Denmark Strait Stock
-
0
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Spain-Portugal-British Isles Stock
.
.
.
.
-
0
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Northeastern Stock
.
.
PS*
0
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
West Norway-Faroe Islands Stock
.
.
.
.
PS
0
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
North Norway Stock
.
.
.
.
-
0
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Eastern Stock
-
0
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
NORTHERN INDIAN OCEAN
.
.
IMS
0
.
.
PS
0
PS
0
PS
0
.
.



1 Available to be taken by aborigines or a Contracting Government on behalf of aborigines pursuant to paragraph 13(b)2.

2 Available to be taken by aborigines pursuant to paragraph 13(b)3. Catch limit for each of the years 1995, 1996 and 1997.

+ The catch limits of zero introduced into Table 1 as editorial amendments as a result of the coming into effect of paragraph 10(e) are not binding upon the governments of the countries which lodged and have not withdrawn objections to the said paragraph.

* The Government of Norway presented objection to the classification of the Northeastern Atlantic stock of minke whales as a Protection Stock within the prescribed period. This classification came into force on 30 January 1986 but is not binding on the Government of Norway.

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