Report of the Commission

Each year, over 80 scientists from around the world gather to discuss and assess the status of the world's whale stocks. They form the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission and report to that body before it agrees regulations for the coming year. The series, which has recently been superseded, contained: (1) details of all management decisions taken by the Commission; (2) the Report of the Scientific Committee and its sub-committees; (3) up to sixty papers written by biologists from up to twenty countries; the papers concern all aspects of cetacean biology (including both the great whales and the smaller cetaceans), from population dynamics, ecology and behaviour, to stock assessment, age determination and genetics.