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COMillERCIAL FiaiERIES REVIEW 



Vol. 13, No. k 



FOREIGN 



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International 



AHTARCTIC WHjiT.TNr, SEASCK ENDS MABGH 5: Die pelagic, or open-sea, catoh of baleen 

 fldiales in the Antarctic shall cease on March 9, I95I, at 12 p.m., according to in- 

 structions given by the International Bureau of Whaling Statistics, Sandef jord, Nor- 

 way, and reported by a radiogram dated February 21 received from the Bureau by the 

 U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 



The message constitutes a forecast that the TnaT<Tniiin cLUOta of 16,000 blue-whale 

 units will have been taken by the above closing date. As of February 1?, I95I. tlie 

 total catch was 12,636 blue->diale units, exclusive of the catch of the Soviet Union's 

 expedition for the preceding week. Bie notification to cease iirtialing was in pursu- 

 ance of paragraph 8, subparagraph (d) of the Schedule annexed to the International 

 Convention for the Regulation of Whaling signed at Washington, December 2, I946, 

 which is as follows (as amended by the International Whaling Commission July 20, I95O 

 at its second meeting in Oslo, Norway): 



"(d) If it shoiold appear that the maximum catch of whales permitted by 

 subparagraph (a) of this paragraph may be reached before April 1 

 of any year, the Commission, or such other body as the Conmission 

 may designate, shall detennine, on the basis of data provided, 

 the date on which the mg-riitniTn catch of vdiales shall be deemed to 

 have been reached and shall notify each Contracting Oovemment of 

 that date not less than two weeks in advance thereof. The taking 

 of baleen whales by ndiale catchers attached to factory ships 

 shall be illegal in any waters south of 40 degrees South latitude 

 after midnight of the date so determined." 



The 194.9-50 pelagic season, originally planned to extend from December 22 to 

 April 7, was closed March I5, I95O. Conse<iuently, the I950-5I season will be 6 

 days shorter than was the previous one. Tiiis probably reflects the fact that there 

 are I9 expeditions operating in 1950-5I whereas there were 18 in I949-5O. 



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British Malaya 



CANNED SARDINES AND HERRING IMPORTS EERMITIED; In^jorts of canned herring and 

 canned sardines against hard-currency payments are permitted by an amendment to the 

 Malayan Import Guide, according to a March 1 American consular dispatch from Singa- 

 pore. This amendment became effective February 24, 



