A lobby group says the breakdown of talks at the International Whaling Commission meeting in Morocco shows how dysfunctional the organisation has become.
Delegates at the talks have failed to end an impasse between pro-whaling countries and their opponents about whaling in the Southern Ocean.
Despite the failure, New Zealand whaling commissioner Sir Geoffrey Palmer says the International Whaling Commission is in better shape because countries have been genuinely negotiating.
However, Greenpeace New Zealand says the failure retains the status quo, with Japan, Iceland and Norway setting their own whale quotas and a moratorium on paper only.
