WHALING  (CONT)

the proposed management scheme, insisted it was still behind the hunting ban.

"There's a real concern (that) any time you talk about doing anything at the IWC people think you are going to allow whaling to start again," U.S. delegate William Hogarth said. "The U.S. position hasn't changed. We are opposed to commercial whaling."

Hogarth said overwhelming public opinion in the United States opposed whaling, and that was reflected in U.S. policy.

But, in a view expressed by many moderate anti-whalers, he said there would be advantages if a strong management scheme could be agreed that would take control over the whaling which is already going on every year despite the ban.

If that happens, he said: "the United States will have to make a decision."

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