2 25 The Conference was tasked with these two missions in order to
ensure the sustainability of the whaling industry This is also clear in the
instruction issued by Acheson to the United States delegation:
“The primary objective of the Conference is to provide for the
conservation and development of the whale stocks, with a view to
the ultimate achievement of a level of stocks which will permit a
sustained capture of the maximum number of whales Declines in
any stocks through overfishing should be arrested at the earliest
practicable moment and provision for rebuilding all depleted stocks
should be made promptly