International:


International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (as amended), Washington 1946

Objectives:

1. To protect all species of whales from overfishing and safeguard for future generations the great natural resources represented by whale stocks.
   
2. To establish a system of international regulation for the whale fisheries to ensure proper conservation and development of whale stocks.

Summary of Provisions:
An International Whaling Commission established,

• To encourage research and investigation, to collect and analyze statistical information, and to appraise and disseminate information concerning whaling and whale stocks
  
• To meet annually to adopt regulations for the conservation and utilization of whale stocks, dealing with protected and unprotected species, open and closed seasons and areas, size limits for species, maximum catches for any one season, types of gear and apparatus to be used.
  
• To prepare a schedule containing detailed regulations for whaling and the Contracting Government to take measures to enforce these regulations.
  
• To be reported of any infraction to these regulations.

Date of entry into force:
10.11.1948

Arab Participants:
Oman