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| Interim Guidelines for the Voluntary Regulation of Antarctic Pelagic Sealing | ||||||
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Status of agreement
| Basic information |
| Date of adoption |
16 November 1966 |
| Place of adoption | Santiago, Chile |
| Entry into force | n/a |
| Authentic text(s) | English |
| Summary of instrument |
For many years following the adoption of the Antarctic Treaty, no commercial sealing took place in the Antarctic Ocean, although it had been an important activity in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. International attention started to focus on sealing in the mid-1960s, however, when some exploratory hunting took place, mainly by vessels from Norway. This led to the adoption, at the 4th Meeting of the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting, of a voluntary set of guidelines in November 1966 pending the negotiation of a more formal agreement. The main commitments included an agreement to restrict seal mortality to the maximum sustainable yield and a prohibition on killing or taking seals when in the water. The Guidelines were applied by Antarctic Treaty members until the adoption of the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Seals in 1972.
| Further information and references |
- Related instruments
- Additional references
(1967) 13 Polar Record 630