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They sat around a big table and smoked cigars, they had drinks in the bar and compared profits and talked of the good old days when the vast herds of great Blue whales made life easy. Then they sat down at that table and bargained until they agreed among themselves what the sporting numbers of whales to be bagged that year would be. Like some exclusive big-game shooting club, the International Whaling Commission (IWC) set it's own quotas and made it's own rules. A kind of 'gentleman's agreement' between nations.
Governing Bodies/Rules/Regulations
International Whaling Commission
- International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (2 Dec 46); Protocol of Amendment (1956)
1997- 49th AGM Final Press Release
- 49th AGM Report from the Sea Shepherd Society
- 49th AGM Report 'The Turmoil Continues' by Kate O'Connell, Cetacean Society International
- 49th AGM Report from the WWF
1996- 48th AGM Final Press Release
- 48th AGM Report by Paul Hodda, Australian Whale Conservation Society
- 48th AGM Report by Kate O'Connell, Board Member, Cetacean Society International
- 48th AGM Report from the World Wide Fund for Nature
1995- 47th AGM Final Press Release
- 47th AGM Report by Carole Carlson, Ph.D., Cetacean Society International
- 47th AGM Report by John Frizell, Greenpeace
- 47th AGM Report from the Sea Shepherd Society
1994- 46th AGM Final Press Release
CITES
(Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora)
- Marine Species Issues Conference of the Parties (COP10) - 1997
IUCN
The World Conservation Union
(formerly the International Union for the Protection of Nature)Regional
Australia Canada
U.S.A.
- Joint Statement Canada, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Greenland & Faroe Is.
International
- BH245 - Agreements for the Establishment of a General Fisheries Council for the Mediterranean (24 Sept 49)
- BH363 - Convention on the Territorial Sea & the Contiguous Zone (29 Apr 58)
- BH364 - Convention on the High Seas (29 Apr 58)
- BH365 - Convention on Fishing & Conservation of Living Resources of the High Seas (29 Apr 58)
- BH366 - Convention on the Continental Shelf (29 Apr 58)
- BH367 - Optional Protocol ... [to] the UN Conf. on the Law of the Sea (29 Apr 58)
- BH390 - The Antarctic Treaty (1 Dec 59) [For 1991 Protocol, see BH992]
- BH458 - Fisheries Convention (9 Mar 64)
- BH458 - International Convention for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (14 May 66)
- BH592 - Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Seals (11 Feb 72)
- BH613 - Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) (3 Mar 73) as amended 1979, 1983; with Appendices I & II (16 Apr 1993) and Appendix III (11 Jun 92)
- BH752 - Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (23 Jun 79)
- BH826 - United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (10 Dec 82)
- Draft Resolution and Draft Agreement Relating to the Implementation of Part XI of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 (1994)
- Agreement Relating to the Implementation of Part XI of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 (A/RES/48/263) (28 Jul 94)
- BH954 - Convention for the Prohibition of Fishing with Long Driftnets in the South Pacific (and Protocols) (24 Nov 89)
- BH992 - Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty (4 Oct 91) (For parent treaty, see BH390)
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