[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 50, Volume 7]
[Revised as of October 1, 2006]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 50CFR230.2]

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                    TITLE 50--WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES
 
  CHAPTER II--NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE, NATIONAL OCEANIC AND 
           ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
 
PART 230_WHALING PROVISIONS--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  230.2  Definitions.

    Aboriginal subsistence whaling means whaling authorized by paragraph 
13 of the Schedule annexed to and constituting a part of the Convention.
    Assistant Administrator means the Assistant Administrator for 
Fisheries of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
    Authorized officer means:
    (1) Any commissioned, warrant, or petty officer of the U.S. Coast 
Guard;
    (2) Any special agent or enforcement officer of the National Marine 
Fisheries Service;
    (3) Any officer designated by the head of a Federal or state agency 
that has entered into an agreement with the Secretary of Commerce or the 
Commandant of the Coast Guard to enforce the provisions of the Whaling 
Convention Act; or
    (4) Any Coast Guard personnel accompanying and acting under the 
direction of any person described in paragraph (1) of this definition.
    Calf means any whale less than 1 year old or having milk in its 
stomach.
    Commission means the International Whaling Commission established by 
article III of the Convention.
    Convention means the International Convention for the Regulation of 
Whaling signed at Washington on December 2, 1946.
    Cooperative agreement means a written agreement between the National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and a Native American whaling 
organization for the cooperative management of aboriginal subsistence 
whaling operations.
    Landing means bringing a whale or any parts thereof onto the ice or 
land in the course of whaling operations.
    Native American whaling organization means an entity recognized by 
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as representing and 
governing Native American whalers for the purposes of cooperative 
management of aboriginal subsistence whaling.
    Regulations of the Commission means the regulations in the Schedule 
annexed to and constituting a part of the Convention, as modified, 
revised, or amended by the Commission from time to time.
    Stinker means a dead, unclaimed whale found upon a beach, stranded 
in shallow water, or floating at sea.
    Strike means hitting a whale with a harpoon, lance, or explosive 
device.
    Wasteful manner means a method of whaling that is not likely to 
result in the landing of a struck whale or that does not include all 
reasonable efforts to retrieve the whale.
    Whale products means any unprocessed part of a whale and blubber, 
meat, bones, whale oil, sperm oil, spermaceti, meal, and baleen.
    Whaling means the scouting for, hunting, striking, killing, 
flensing, or landing of a whale, and the processing of whales or whale 
products.

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    Whaling captain or captain means any Native American who is 
authorized by a Native American whaling organization to be in charge of 
a vessel and whaling crew.
    Whaling crew means those Native Americans under the control of a 
captain.
    Whaling village means any U.S. village recognized by the Commission 
as having a cultural and/or subsistence need for whaling.