THE MARINE MAMMAL COMMISSION COMPENDIUM
MULTILATERAL / MARINE MAMMALS
Volume(s) 1-3; pages 1477-1478
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Amendments to the Schedule to the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, London, 1972
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Done at London 30 June 1972
Entered into force 5 October 1972
Primary source citation: 23 UST 2820, TIAS 7471
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INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION GREAT WESTMINSTER HOUSE, HORSEFERRY ROAD, LONDON, S.W.1P 2AE Telephone: 01-834 8511 (Extension 405) Chairman: I. RINDAL (Norway) Vice-Chairman: C. G. SETTER (Australia) Secretary: R. STACEY
5 OCTOBER 1972
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CIRCULAR COMMUNICATION TO ALL CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS sINTERNATIONAL WHALING CONVENTION 1946 AMENDMENTS TO SCHEDULE
The Secretary refers to his circular letter of 6 July 1972, notifying Contracting Governments of the amendments to the Schedule to the Convention agreed at the Commission's Twenty-fourth Annual Meeting.
No objections have been received to the amendments proposed at the Twenty-fourth Meeting i.e. to paragraphs 1(c), 4(1)(a), 5, 6(1), 8(a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), (i), (j), 9(c), 11 and 12(a) and these amendments, shown overleaf, therefore become binding on all Contracting Governments from 5 October 1972. The Secretary requests an acknowledgment of the receipt of this letter, a copy of which is also being sent to all Commissioners.
SCHEDULE AMENDMENTS MADE AT THE TWENTY-FOURTH MEETING WHICH COME INTO FORCE ON 5 OCTOBER 1972
Paragraph 1 (c) Insert after ‘Commission’ line 3 ‘acting through its Secretary’.
Paragraph 4 (1) (a) Delete the words ‘for three years ending on 24th February 1973’.
Paragraph 5
Delete whole paragraph. Insert ‘[This paragraph was deleted following a recommendation made at the 24th Meeting]’.
Paragraph 6 (1) Delete after ‘Ocean’ line 2 ‘for a period ending on 8th November 1972’. Delete ‘close season’ line 3 and substitute ‘prohibition’.
Paragraph 8 (a) Delete after ‘exceed’ line 3 ‘2,300 blue whale units in 1971/72’ and substitute ‘1,950 fin and 5,000 sei and Bryde's whales combined and 5,000 minke whales in 1972/73’.
Paragraph 8 (b) Delete whole sub-paragraph.
Paragraph 8 (c) Renumber 8 (b) delete ‘blue whale units’ line 3 and substitute ‘fin, sei, Bryde's and minke whales’. Delete ‘blue whale units’ line 5 and substitute ‘each of these species’. Delete ‘blue whale units’ last line and substitute ‘each of these species’.
Paragraph 8 ( d)
Renumber 8 ( c) delete ‘whales’ line 4 and substitute ‘each of these species’.
Paragraph 8 (e) Renumber 8 (d).
Paragraph 8 (f) Renumber 8 (e) delete ‘Subject to subparagraph (h)’ line 1. Delete after ‘exceed’ line 2 ‘1,046’ and ‘1972’ and substitute ‘650’ and ‘1973’.
Paragraph 8 (g) Renumber 8 (f) delete ‘Subject to subparagraph (h)’. Delete after ‘exceed’ line 2 ‘3768’ and ‘1972’ line 3 and substitute ‘3,000’ and ‘1973’. Delete last sentence.
Paragraph 8 (h) Delete whole sub-paragraph.
Paragraph 8 (i) Renumber 8 (g). Delete after ‘exceed’ in line 2 ‘10,841 whales in 1972’ and substitute ‘6,000 male and 4,000 female sperm whales in 1973’.
Paragraph 8 (j) Delete whole sub-paragraph and footnote and substitute sub-paragraph 8 (h) ‘The number of sperm whales taken in the Southern Hemisphere in the 1972/73 pelagic season and the 1973 coastal season shall not exceed 8,000 males and 5,000 females’.
Paragraph 9 (c) Delete ‘38’ to ‘stations’ lines 1, 2 and 3 and substitute ‘30 feet (9.2 metres) in length except in the North Atlantic Ocean where it is forbidden to take or kill any sperm whale below 35 feet (10.7 metres).’
Paragraph 11
Delete after ‘8’ line 6 ‘(f), (g) and (h)’ and substitute ‘(e) and (f)’.
Paragraph 12 (a) Delete ‘5’ in the last line.