The moratorium on commercial whaling is less and less effective each year.

It will make it harder to overturn the 1986 ban on commercial whaling.

Some say a resumption of commercial whaling, with the right controls in place, could produce a better outcome.

So long as commercial whaling isn't happening, the increase should continue.

This amounts to pulling out of a global agreement on limiting whale catches and potentially puts Greenland on the path to resuming commercial whaling.