Resource Management Plan: The thick and sometimes multi-volume guiding document for each BLM resource area The plans are not static, but may be amended as different resources become more important
Revised Management Procedure The current method to set safe catch limits which was developed as the replacement for the NMP Although all of the proposed five procedures (see below) passed standards, the Cooke procedure was adopted by the Scientific Committee in 1991 Punt and Butterworth procedure (PB procedure) Cooke procedure (C procedure) de la Mare procedure (dlM procedure) Sakuramoto and Tanaka procedure (ST procedure) Magnusson and Stefansson procedure (MS procedure) With a feedback system implemented, the RMP is a very robust method which can cope with many uncertain factors in whale stock population Unofficial trial computation by using the RMP showed that the annual catch of 2,000 minke whales in the Antarctic for 100 years will not deplete the stock See The Revised Management Procedure (RMP) for Baleen Whales for details