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CA AJR44

Joint Resolution

Official Source

Status

Passed

9/9/2010

Primary Sponsor

Jerry Hill

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Origin

State Assembly

2009-2010 Session

AI Summary

  • Requests that the President and Congress of the United States ensure proper conservation of whale stocks
  • Opposes any proposal by the International Whaling Commission to lift the commercial whaling moratorium enacted in 1986
  • Objects to authorizing new whaling quotas for Japan, Iceland, and Norway or allowing whale hunting in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary
  • Cites whale population decline, including blue whales reduced from hundreds of thousands to an estimated 5,000 to 12,000 worldwide
  • Directs the Assembly Chief Clerk to transmit the resolution to the President, Vice President, Congressional leadership, and California's members of Congress

Legislative Description

Commercial whaling: moratoriums.

Last Action

Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 146, Statutes of 2010.

9/9/2010

Committee Referrals

Rules8/12/2010
Water, Parks and Wildlife6/17/2010

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