allocation.'^" No agreement was reached/' * but negotiations continued, accompanied by threats by 



Norway and the Netherlands to withdraw from the Convention. 



Finally, in 1962, the five Antarctic whaling States agreed to the following national quotas to be 

 observed until the end of the 1965/66 season: Japan, 33 per cent; Norway, 32 per cent; Soviet Union, 

 20 per cent; United Kingdom, 9 per cent; and the Netherlands, 6 per cent.'^^ It was also agreed that 

 none of the States would increase the number of factory ships it operated in the Antarctic, except by 

 purchase of a factory ship engaged in Antarctic pelagic whaHng at the time of the purchase, along with 

 part of the seller's quota.' ' ^ The Soviet Union, however, was permitted to add one factory.' ' ■* 



"Public outcry over the decimation of the world's whale stock resulted in the establishment of a 

 committee of neutral expert population dynamists to examine all relevant data and make recommenda- 

 tions to the Commission."' '^ Their two reports resulted in Commission action reducing the quota to 

 3,500 blue whale units for the 1966/67 season and 3,200 units for the 1967/68 season, totals higher 

 than those recommended by the scientists."* Japan, Norway, the Soviet Union and the United 

 Kingdom agreed to allocate the 3,200 units for the 1967/68 season as foUows: Japan, 46.66 per cent; 

 Soviet Union, 30.48 per cent; and Norway, 22.86 per cent." ' 



While Antarctic whaling has been its principal concern, the Commission has also been unable to 

 obtain agreement on necessary measures to control whahng in the north Pacific, the only important area 

 outside the Antarctic for baleen whales, and an area which is also presenting exceedingly different 

 problems. 



G. International Convention for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas 



This Convention has not yet come into force. It has been signed by Brazil, Gabon, Japan, RepubUc of 

 Korea, Spain and the United States. The United States ratified it on May 18, 1967. Japan, Ghana and 

 South Africa have also ratified or otherwise adhered to the Convention. It will not come into force until 

 seven instruments of ratification, approval or adherence are deposited with the Director General of the 

 United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). It is open for signature by any government 

 which is a member of the United Nations or of any of its specialized agencies. 



1. Objectives 



In 1960, a Symposium on African Tuna was held in Dakar, Senegal, under the auspices of the 

 Commission for Science and Technology of the States South of the Sahara (CCTA). A group of 

 representatives from West African nations called for the estabUshment of an international commission to 

 manage Atlantic Ocean tuna along the lines of the American Tropical Tuna Convention. CCTA 

 requested the UN Secretary-General to implement the suggestion and he referred the matter to FAO. 



'^ "convention, Art. V (2) (c). 



" 'Oda, International Control of Sea Resources 81 (1963). 



"^Arrangements for the Regulation of Antarctic Pelagic Whaling, Art. IV, Thirteenth (1962) Annual Report of 

 Intemationsd Commission on Whaling, Appendix V, at 34. 



'"/Wd. 



Chapman, supra note 107, at 21. 



''"ibid. 



"^Commercial Fisheries Review, Vol. 29, No. 11, November 1967, at 34. Neither the Netherlands nor the United 

 Kingdom is engaged in Antarctic whaling any longer. The nations involved were unable to agree upon national quotas 

 for the 1966/67 season. 



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