Footnote to paragraph 13(a)(2): 



*The Commission, on advice of the Scientific Committee, 

 shall establish as far as possible (a) a minimum stock 

 level for each stock below which whales shall not be 

 taken, and (b) a rate of increase towards the MSY 

 level for each stock. The Scientific Committee shall 

 advise on a minimum stock level and on a range of 

 rates of increase towards the MSY level under 

 different catch regimes. 



As a result of this and associated amendments, the taking 

 of bowheads by Alaskan Eskimos, humpbacks, fins, and minkes 

 by Greenlanders, and gray whales by Soviets as well as any 

 other whaling for aboriginal subsistence purposes will be 

 allowed in 1984 and thereafter only at levels that the IWC 

 finds, based upon advice of both the Standing Subcommittee 

 on Need and the Scientific Committee, to be consistent 

 with these criteria. 



Post-Meeting Decisions and Activities 



Under the terms of the Convention, decisions reached by 

 the IWC at its July 1982 meeting setting quotas and 

 otherwise amending the Schedule of regulations governing 

 whaling activities did not become effective until 4 November 

 1982, 90 days after they were formally transmitted to the 

 members. Any member nation that filed an objection within 

 the 90-day period would not be legally obligated to comply 

 with any Schedule change to which it had objected. As of 

 4 November 198 2, Japan, Norway, Peru, and U.S.S.R. had filed 

 objections to the cessation measure, Peru had filed an 

 additional objection to the quota of 165 for the Peruvian 

 stock of Bryde's whales, and Chile had filed an objection 

 to the quota of zero for the Eastern South Pacific stock 

 of Bryde's whales. Under the Convention, the filing of 

 those objections extended the objection period for an 

 additional 90 days, until 2 February 1983, and any other 

 member nation may join in filing objections to those 

 provisions of the Schedule. 



As discussed in previous Annual Reports, whaling 

 activities pursuant to objections to the IWC Schedule may 

 trigger certain provisions of two U.S. laws — the Pelly 

 Amendment to the Fishermen's Protective Act and the 

 Packwood-Magnuson Amendment to the Magnuson Fishery 

 Conservation and Management Act. Under the former, the 

 United States may embargo imports of fish products from 



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