Sentences with phrase «whale catch limits»

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If adopted in June at the IWC annual meeting in Agadir, Morocco, the proposal would set 10 years of «scientifically determined» catch limits for the whaling nations.

Catch - limit models have been run for several of the whale populations currently being hunted — such as the western North Pacific Bryde's whales and the North Atlantic common minke whales.

This remains in place although the Commission continues to set catch limits for aboriginal subsistence whaling.

When, at its 1982 meeting, the IWC agreed to a pause in commercial whaling (or to use popular terminology, a «moratorium») from 1986, the amendment to the regulations included a clause that «the Commission will undertake a «comprehensive assessment» of the effects of this decision on whale stocks and consider modification of this provision and the establishment of other catch limits».

The Revised Management Procedure (RMP) is the process developed by the IWC's Scientific Committee to estimate sustainable catch limits for commercial whaling of baleen whales.

In 1986 the Commission introduced a moratorium on commercial whaling and set all catch limits to zero.

The RMS covers the aspects of commercial whaling regulation not related to setting catch limits, such as observer schemes and record keeping.

NOTE 1: The commercial whaling moratorium sets commercial catch limits on all whale species in all areas to zero.

The Commission, while adopting the RMP, agreed not to lift the commercial whaling moratorium until an RMS is in place to ensure that agreed catch limits are not exceeded1.