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Title	Link	Kb
Annual Commission Meeting
Report of the Scientific Committee	59-Rep1	1061
Report of the Finance and Administration Committee	59-Rep2	456
Report of the Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling Sub-Committee	59-Rep3	170
Report of the Infractions Sub-Committee	59-Rep4	109
Report of the Conservation Committee	59-Rep5	150
Report of the Working Group on Whale Killing Methods & Associated Welfare Issues	59-Rep6	64
1 List of Documents	59-1	27
2 Annotated Provisional Agenda	59-2 French	223
3 List of Delegates	59-3	97
4 Co-operation with other organisations	59-4	115
5 Financial Statements	59-5	163
7 Chair’s Summary of the Conference for the Normalization of the International Whaling Commission	59-7	115
8 Review of commercial humpback whale watching activities in the South Pacific: France	59-8 French	411
9 Proposed Schedule amendment to permit the catching of minke whales from the Okhotsk Sea-West Pacific Stock by small-type coastal whaling vessels	59-9 French	85
10 Commercial whalewatching off the French Mediterranean coast: France	59-10 French	317
11 Chair’s Summary: Symposium on the State of the Conservation of whales in the 21st Century	59-11	109
12 Revised proposal to amend the Schedule to establish a South Atlantic Whale Sanctuary (submitted by Brazil)	59-12 French	16
13 Search and rescue and environmental issues in the Antarctic (an information paper submitted by New Zealand).	59-13	36
14 Ecuador whale watching at its purest (submitted by Ecuador)	59-14.pdf	1.4M
15 Information regarding purchase and export of Alaska Native Art handicrafts (Submitted by the USA)	59-15	14
16 Safety issues at sea and their implications (Submitted by Japan)	59-16	259
17 U.S. Response to Inquiry Regarding: (1) what is being done to reduce entanglement of large whales in U.S. waters, (2) what is the response protocol once an entangled large whale is encountered, and (3) what is the U.S. policy regarding euthanasia of entangled large whales in U.S. waters	59-17	74
18 Ecosystem-Based Management in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Progress towards Adopting the Ecosystem Approach in the International Management	59-18	40
19 Draft Resolution CITES (Submitted by the UK)	59-19 French	20
20 Proposal by St. Vincent and the Grenadines	59-20 French	17
21 Proposal by the United States of America and the Russian Federation	59-21 French	20
22 Proposal by the United States of America and the Russian Federation	59-22 French	17
23 Proposed Schedule Amendment (Greenland Catch Limits) Submitted by Denmark	59-23rev3 French	55
24 Statement on Traditional Small-type Coastal Whaling in Ishinomaki (Submitted by Japan)	59-24	19
25 Resolution on safety at sea and protection of the environment (Submitted by Japan and New Zealand)	59-25 French	24
26 Draft resolution: the vaquita, from critically endangered to facing extinction Submitted by Belgium	59-26 French	22
27 Resolution on JARPA Proposed by New Zealand	59-27 French	55
28 Declaration Submitted by Argentina	59-28	398
29 Draft resolution on the non-lethal use of cetaceans Submitted by Brazil	59-29 French	55
30 Membership of the Advisory Committee since its establishment in 1997	59-30	22
31 Proposal on the application of the contributions formula (interim measure). Submitted by Spain	59-31 French	16
32 Proposal regarding delegation size and implications on financial contributions of host governments of Annual Meetings. Submitted by Brazil and Chile	59-32	23
33 Non-governmental organisation accreditation and participation in IWC Annual Meetings: a recommended approach (Submitted by Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and the USA)	59-33	27
34 Resolution on Small-Type Coastal Whaling Submitted by Japan	59-34	16
35 Proposal to link IWC’s website to those Contracting Governments	59-35	18
36 Documents Submitted to the Scientific Committee as Confidential Submitted by the Secretariat)	59-36	21
Historical Documents:
IWC/57/4rev The South Atlantic: A sanctuary for whales: Argentina, Brazil and South Africa	57-4rev	725
Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling Sub-Committee
1 Revised Draft Agenda	59-ASW1rev	44
2 List of Documents	59-ASW2	21
3 Rationale for Needs of Aboriginal People of the Russian Federation for Gray and Bowhead Whales Harvest in 2008-2012: Russian Federation	59-ASW3 59-ASW3rev	370 239
4 Studies of Sea Ice Condition in the East Siberian, Chukchi, Bering and Beaufort Seas (1979-2006): Russian Federation	59-ASW4	370
5 Aboriginal harvest of gray and bowhead whales in Russian Federation in 2006	59-ASW5	32
6 Quantification of subsistence and cultural need for bowhead whales by Alaska Eskimos (2007)	59-ASW6	31
7 Considerations of Management Implications of “Stinky” Gray Whales for the Eastern North Pacific Stock	59-ASW7	23
8 White paper on hunting of large whales in Greenland (submitted by the Greenland Home Rule Government)	59-ASW8rev	385
9 Whale Hunting and the Makah Tribe: A needs statement, April 2007 (submitted by the USA)	59-ASW9	199
Historical Documents:
IWC/54/AS1 Quantification of subsistence and cultural need for bowhead whales by Alaska Eskimos (1997)	54-AS-1	1896
Infractions Sub-Committee
1 Draft Agenda	59-INF1	29
2 Annotated Draft Agenda	59-INF2	27
3 National Legislation supplied to the IWC - 2007	59-INF3	16
4 Summary of Infraction Reports for 2006 Received by the Commission	59-INF4	36
Whale Killing Methods and Associated Welfare Issues Workshop
1 Draft Agenda	59WKM&AWI1	24
2 List of Documents	59WKM&AWI2	14
3 Summary of Activities Related to the Action Plan on Whale Killing Methods (based on Resolution 1999-1) (submitted by Denmark (Greenland))	59WKM&AWI3	69
4 Report on weapons, techniques, and observations in the Alaskan bowhead whale subsistence hunt	59WKM&AWI4	203
5 Summary of Activities Related to the Action Plan on Whale Killing Methods (based on Resolution 1999-1) (submitted by the Russian Federation)	59WKM&AWI5	47
6 Norwegian minke whaling 2006	59WKM&AWI6	20
7 Fatally entangled right whales can die extremely slowly. Submitted by Norway for information	59WKM&AWI7	166
8 'Struck and Lost' whales in commercial and Special Permit hunting (submitted by New Zealand)	59WKM&AWI8	62
9 Summary of Activities Related to the Action Plan on Whale Killing Methods (based on Resolution 1999-1)	59WKM&AWI9	57
Conservation Committee
1 Revised Draft Agenda	59-CC1rev	42
2 List of Documents	59-CC2	15
3 Ship Strikes Working Group, Second Progress Report to the Conservation Committee	59-CC3	244
4 Country Report on Ship Strikes: Australia	59-CC4	20
5 Update on whale protection measures in the Pacific region (from Australia)	59-CC5	31
6 Voluntary National Cetacean Conservation Report (from Australia)	59-CC6	56
7 The Project for a Marine Mammal Sanctuary in the French West Indies in 2007: France	59-CC7 French	46
8 Pelagos Sanctuary for Marine Mammals in the Mediterranean: France	59-CC8 French	38
9 France voluntary cetacean conservation report 2006	59-CC9	29
10 Voluntary National Cetacean Conservation Report (from New Zealand)	59-CC10	42
11 Update on the United States’ Actions to Reduce the Threat of Ship Collisions with North Atlantic Right Whale	59-CC11	40
12 United States of America: Voluntary National Cetacean Conservation Report, 2007	59-CC12	69
13 Voluntary National Cetacean Conservation Report (from Argentina)	59-CC13	29
14 Voluntary Cetacean Conservation Report 2006-07 (from Italy)	59-CC14	110
15 Summary of findings on the investigation of the stinky whale condition in Eastern North Pacific gray whales. (Submitted by the United States of America and the Russian Federation).	59-CC15	350
16 Voluntary National Cetacean Conservation Report, 2007 (from Brazil)	59-CC16	32
17 Update to Voluntary National Cetacean Conservation Report of 2006 (from UK)	59-CC17	26
18 Recommendations of the Ship Strikes Working Group to the Conservation Committee	59-CC18	27
19 Voluntary National Cetacean Conservation Report, 2007 (from Mexico)	59-CC19	60
Historical Documents:
IWC/57/CC7 Outline Proposal for the IWC Conservation Agenda	57-CC7	71
IWC/58/Rep5 Report of the Conservation Committee	58-Rep5	153
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