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 52 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-REGULATION OF WHALING-JUNE 8, 1937 ARTICLE 16. The contracting Governments shall obtain with regard to all factory statstics. ships and land stations under their jurisdiction records of the number of whales of each species treated at each factory ship or land station and as to the aggregate amounts of oil of each grade and quantities of meal, guano and other products derived from them, together with particulars with respect to each whale treated in the factory ship or land station as to the date and place of taking, the species and sex of the whale, its length and, if it contains a foetus, the length and sex, if ascertainable, of the foetus. ARTICLE 17. The contracting Governments shall, with regard to all whaling op- Transmission to In- ternational Bureau for erations under their jurisdiction, communicate to the International Whaling Statistics. Bureau for Whaling Statistics at Sandefjord in Norway the statisti- cal information specified in Article 16 of the present Agreement to- gether with any information which may be collected or obtained by them in regard to the calving grounds and migration routes of whales. In communicating this information the Governments shall specify:- (a) the name and tonnage of each factory ship; b) the number and aggregate tonnage of the whale catchers; (c) a list of the land stations which were in operation during the period concerned. ARnTILE 18. In the present Agreement the following expressions have the mean- Definition ings respectively assigned to them, that is to say:- "factory ship" means a ship in which or on which whales are treated whether wholly or in part; "whale catcher" means a ship used for the purpose of hunting, taking, towing, holding on to, or scouting for whales; "land station" means a factory on the land, or in the territorial waters adjacent thereto, in which or at which whales are treated whether wholly or in part; "baleen whale" means any whale other than a toothed whale; "blue whale" means any whale known by the name of blue whale, Sibbald's rorqual or sulphur bottom; "fin whale" means any whale known by the name of common finback, common finner, common rorqual, finback, fin whale, herring whale, razorback, or true fin whale; "grey whale" means any whale known by the name of grey whale, California grey, devil fish, hard head, mussel digger, grey back, rip sack; "humpback whale" means any whale known by the name of bunch, humpback, humpback whale, humpbacked whale, hump whale or hunchbacked whale; "right whale" means any whale known by the name of Atlantic right whale, Arctic right whale, Biscayan right whale, bowhead, great polar whale, Greenland right whale, Green- land whale, Nordkaper, North Atlantic right whale, North Cape whale, Pacific right whale, pigmy right whale, South- ern pigmy right whale or Southern right whale; 1463

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