[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 370 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. CON. RES. 370

  Expressing the sense of the Congress that the United States should 
 promote and support the use of sound science in management decisions 
  made by the International Whaling Commission and remain diligent in 
  their efforts to protect the ability of Native people of the United 
   States, who have been issued quotas by the International Whaling 
   Commission, to continue to legally harvest whales, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 9, 2002

  Mr. Young of Alaska submitted the following concurrent resolution; 
     which was referred to the Committee on International Relations

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
  Expressing the sense of the Congress that the United States should 
 promote and support the use of sound science in management decisions 
  made by the International Whaling Commission and remain diligent in 
  their efforts to protect the ability of Native people of the United 
   States, who have been issued quotas by the International Whaling 
   Commission, to continue to legally harvest whales, and for other 
                               purposes.

Whereas the International Whaling Commission has adopted a moratorium on 
        commercial whaling, effective in 1986, which has been extended pending 
        the development of a revised management scheme;
Whereas the United States was a world leader in establishing the moratorium on 
        commercial whaling to protect and conserve whale populations;
Whereas the United States should promote the use of scientific information in 
        negotiating management measures to maintain the integrity of the 
        International Whaling Commission as the governing international body 
        over whale species;
Whereas many Alaska Natives rely on whales to provide sustenance and to meet 
        their subsistence and cultural needs;
Whereas the International Whaling Commission allocates quotas for the Alaska 
        Native harvest of bowhead whales;
Whereas sound science should guide the decisions of the United States delegation 
        in negotiating positions on resolutions before the International Whaling 
        Commission; and
Whereas the United States needs to support the use of sound science in 
        management measures undertaken by the International Whaling Commission 
        to ensure that all participatory nations remain parties to the 
        Commission and do not undertake whaling activities on their own: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That it is the sense of Congress that--
            (1) the United States should remain diligent in its efforts 
        to protect the ability of Native people of the United States 
        who have been issued quotas by the International Whaling 
        Commission to continue to legally harvest whales;
            (2) the President should instruct representatives to the 
        United States delegation to the 54th annual meeting of the 
        International Whaling Commission to support positions that are 
        based on sound science;
            (3) the President should instruct the United States 
        delegation to the 54th annual meeting of the International 
        Whaling Commission to support only those resolutions proposing 
        the designation of any new whale sanctuaries that have 
        specific, scientifically defensible goals, that have a long-
        term research component to monitor the progress toward meeting 
        the goals of the sanctuary, and that are based on guidelines 
        and criteria developed by the Scientific Committee of the 
        International Whaling Commission; and
            (4) the United States should support prompt completion by 
        the International Whaling Commission of all outstanding 
        portions of a revised management scheme.
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