231. The moratorium on commercial whaling, paragraph 10 (e), provides:
“Notwithstanding the other provisions of paragraph 10, catch limits for the
killing for commercial purposes of whales from all stocks for the 1986 coastal and the
1985/86 pelagic seasons and thereafter shall be zero. This provision will be kept
under review, based upon the best scientific advice, and by 1990 at the latest the
Commission will undertake a comprehensive assessment of the effects of this decision
on whale stocks and consider modification of this provision and the establishment of
other catch limits.”