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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)
- Schedule as amended at the 51st Annual Meeting 1999, and replacing that dated September 1998
20062005
- 58th AGM Daily Press Releases
- Report on the 58th AGM Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 from the International Marine Mammal Project
2004
- 57th AGM Daily Press Releases
- Report on the 57th AGM Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 from the International Marine Mammal Project
2003
- 56th AGM Final Press Release
- Report on the 56th AGM Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 from the International Marine Mammal Project
2002
- 55th AGM Final Press Release
- Report on the 55th AGM Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 from the International Marine Mammal Project
- Report on the Whale Killing Methods Workshop from Andy Ottaway for the Global Whale Alliance
2001 2000
- 54th AGM Final Press Release
- Report on the IWC Cambridge Special Meeting from Whale & Dolphin Conservation Society
- MAFF Update on IWC54 from the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
- Notes on the 54th AGM from Whale & Dolphin Conservation Society
54th Draft Agenda Plenary Meeting 20th - 24th May, 2002 [560k pdf]
1999
- 52nd AGM Final Press Release
- 52nd AGM Resolutions
- Notes on the 52nd AGM from Paul Spong, Orcalab
- MAFF Update on IWC52 from the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
1998
- 51st AGM Final Press Release
- 51st AGM Resolutions
- 51st AGM Report by Katie Gray, Cetacean Society International's IWC Representative
- Notes on the 51st AGM from Paul Spong & Ben White
1997
- 50th AGM Final Press Release
- Notes on the 50th AGM from Paul Spong, Orcalab
- 50th AGM Report from Eco Newsletter
- World Marine Mammal Science Conference - Whale Watching Workshop
1996
- 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
1995
- 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
- 48th IWC Meeting Wrap-Up from William Rossiter, Great Whales Foundation
1994
- 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
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(Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora)
- Convention Text
- Black Sea Bottlenose Dolphins Current Status - January 2002
- Resolutions CoP11 Conference of the Parties - Kenya, April 2000
- USA Proposed Agenda Items Conference of the Parties (CoP11)
- Resolutions CoP10 Conference of the Parties - Zimbabwe, June 1997
- Resolutions CoP9 Conference of the Parties - Fort Lauderdale, November 1994
- Previous CoP Resolutions Conference of the Parties
IUCN
The World Conservation Union
(formerly the International Union for the Protection of Nature)Regional
- Australia
- Canada
- Joint Statement Canada, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Greenland & Faroe Is.
- U.S.A.
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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