The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling stipulate in its preamble that the IWC was established to provide for the proper conservation of whale stocks and thus make possible the orderly development of the whaling industry. This means that the IWC itself violate its own Convention. Those facts show how the IWC at present is dysfunctional as an international body to regulate whale resources. The IWC keeps disregarding the advice of its scientific committee and keeps adopting political decisions.

It maintains the whaling moratorium irrespective abundance of whale population abundance. In such circumstances, CITES should not base its decisions on IWC's political decisions. Rather, its decisions should be based upon its own criteria, referring to scientific data collected by responsible scientific bodies.

And to keep its credibility, CITES should decide to downlist abundant whale species from its endangered species list (Appendix I).

Many whalers and people in whaling industry had to quit their job by IWC's irrational decisions. One of my friends who was on whaling boats for many years keeps his job on a research whaling boat now. One day, he expressed his frustration to me saying "you can see a lot of whales out at sea. Whales are not at all endangered. Endangered are us whalers"