non-member whaling activities, on revision of the management 
procedures for commercial whaling, on development of management 
principles, and on guidelines for aboriginal subsistence 
whaling, and also passed resolutions relating to data 
requirements and non-member whaling activities. 
Post-Meeting Decisions 
Under the terms of the Convention for the Regulation of 
Whaling, decisions of the IWC at its July 1980 meeting 
setting quotas and otherwise amending the Schedule of regulations 
governing whaling activities did not become effective until 
26 November 1980, 90 days after they were formally transmitted 
to the members. Any member nation that filed an objection 
within that 90-day period would not be legally obligated to 
comply with any Schedule change to which it objected. In 
1980, two issues relating to the decisions at the July 1980 
meeting arose during the 90-day period following the meeting. 
First, upon review of the text of amendments to the 
Schedule that was transmitted to members by the Secretary of 
the IWC following the July 1980 meeting, the United States 
noted that, as a result of an apparent oversight during the 
course of the extensive and often complex discussions at the 
meeting, the members had neglected to vote to establish 
quotas for sperm whale stocks in Divisions 1 through 8 of 
the southern hemisphere. In order to remedy this oversight, 
the United States wrote to the Chairman of the IWC to request 
a postal vote under the IWC's Rules of Procedure on its 
proposal to set quotas of zero for sperm whales in each of 
the eight Divisions. This proposal by the United States 
received the necessary three-fourths majority favorable vote 
(18 in favor, 2 abstentions, and 4 not responding) and will 
become binding on all member nations on 22 February 1981 
unless a member nation files an objection to the amendment 
before that date. 
A second issue arising within the 90-day period following 
the July 1980 meeting related to the IWC decision to ban the 
use of cold grenade (non-explosive) harpoons to kill for 
commercial purposes any whale except the minke whale from 
the beginning of the 1980/81 pelagic and 1981 coastal seasons. 
By Circular Communication of 26 November 1980, the Secretary 
of the IWC advised all Contracting Governments that the 
Republic of Korea had filed an objection to this decision 
within the 90-day period because of "the peculiar difficulties 
such a ban would impose on Korean whalers". Under the terms 
of the Convention, this objection had the effect of delaying 
the effective date on the ban of the use of cold grenade 
harpoons for any member for at least an additional 90 days 
(until 23 February 1981) and providing an additional period 
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