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The Representatives recommend to their Governments that in 

 accordance with Eecommendation III-XI each Government should 

 voluntarily take account of the following Interim Guide Lines for 

 the Voluntarily Regulation of Antarctic Pelagic Sealing: 



1. The total number of seals of each species taken in the area south 

 of 60° South Latitude should not exceed the maximum sustainable 

 yield of that species. 



2. The maximum sustainable yield of each species in the area south 

 of 60° South Latitude should be regarded as the number of each 

 species specified in Annex A. 



3. If the number of seals taken in any locality in any year is such as 

 to disturb the natural ecological system in that locality, no seals 

 should be taken therein until the balance of that system has been 

 restored and in any case until one year has elapsed. 



4. A seal should not be killed or taken when it is in the water. 



5. The Ross Seal {Ommato'phoca rossi) should not be killed or taken 

 except for scientific purposes. 



6. For the purposes of these Interim Guide Lines, the area south of 

 60° South Latitude should be divided into the zones set out in 

 Annex B. Seals should be killed or taken only in alternating 

 zones and alternating periods as set out in Annex B. 



7. Each Government should provide the other Contracting Govern- 

 ments before 31 October of each year with the following infor- 

 mation relating to the preceding period of 1 July to 30 June : 



a) the number, for each species, of adult males, of adult females, 

 of pregnant females, and of pups killed or taken; and 



b) the locations where these seals were killed or taken. 



8. At the same time, each Government should provide to the other 

 Contracting Governments information on any steps it has taken 

 in accordance with these Interim Guide Lines. 



9. When it appears to any Consultative Party that the harvest of any 

 species of seal in the area of 60° South Latitude is approaching the 

 maximum sustaihable yield therein, or in any locality is disturbing 

 the ecological system therein, that Party may propose through 

 diplomatic channels that a Consultative Meeting be convened under 

 Article IX of the Antarctic Treaty. If all Consultative Parties so 

 agree, such a Meeting shall be convened as soon as possible to 

 consider the situation and the steps it may be necessary to take. 



