The convention is a successor to the International Agreement for the Regulation of Whaling, signed in London on 8 June 1937, and the protocols for that agreement signed in London on 24 June 1938, and 26 November 1945.
Die Konvention stellt eine Nachfolgerin des International Agreement for the Regulation of Whaling vom 8. Juni 1937 (London) dar; dessen Protokolle wurden am 24. Juni 1938 und am 26. November 1946 unterzeichnet.