Fifty first meeting, Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission

Abstract

This is my report from the Scientific Committee meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) held in Grenada from 3 May to 15 May 1999. An earlier draft was prepared for Jim McClay, NZ Commissioner to the IWC, for briefing on the issues discussed in the Scientific Committee. In this report I outline the important discussions that occurred in the Scientific Committee, particularly those issues that directly affect New Zealand. I attended three of the seven sessions, while Scott Baker, Steve Dawson and Mike Donoghue attended various parts of these three plus the other four sessions that I was unable to cover. New Zealand was very well represented at the meeting, which allowed coverage of all sessions even when three or four were running concurrently.