It's an ongoing saga that never seems to get resolved:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/...tas-fails.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereport...issed_opp.html
The 1500 quota remains but at least it didn't go in the other direction. Meanwhile the whaling nations carry on with their aid-for-votes campaigns, I read somewhere that the vote turned on Palau - found it:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environmen...ercial-whaling