The convention is a successor to the 1931 Geneva Convention for Regulation of Whaling and the 1937 International Agreement for the Regulation of Whaling, established in response to the overexploitation of whales in the post-World War I period. Neither instrument was effective, but each provided the framework for the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, which was spearheaded by the United States and signed by 15 countries in Washington, D.C., on 3 December 1946; the convention took effect on 10 November 1948.Key Documents . iwcoffice.org. Retrieved on 23 July 2013. A protocol broadening the scope of the convention's enforcement was signed on 19 November 1956.
The convention is a successor to the 1931 Geneva Convention for Regulation of Whaling and the 1937 International Agreement for the Regulation of Whaling, established in response to the overexploitati.on of whales in the post-World War I period. Neither instrument was effective, but each provided the framework for the International Conventio.n for the Regulation of Whaling, which was spearheaded by the United States and signed by 15 co.untries in Washington, D.C., on 3 December 1946; the convention took effect on 10 November 1948Key Documents . iwcofficeorg. Retrieved on 23 July 2013. A protocol broadening the scope of the convention's enforcement was signed on 19 November 1956