New video of Sea Shepherd collision with Japanese whalers
Japanese whalers have released new video and photographs which they said showed anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd's vessel ramming their harpoon ship in order to hamper fuelling in the Southern Ocean.
The Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR), a Japanese group that runs the whaling programme, said in a release that Sea Shepherd's "Bob Baker" vessel collided with its "Nisshin Maru" and fuel tanker ship at least five times starting from noon on Monday.
The activists had been attempting to prevent refuelling between the tanker and the Japanese whaling fleet's 8,000-tonne factory when the collision occurred.
No Japanese crew members were injured, ICR said, and the damage to the ships was yet unknown, the release said.
Japan introduced scientific whaling to skirt a commercial whaling ban under a 1986 moratorium. It argues it has a right to monitor the whales' impact on its fishing industry.
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D Borg
Feb 26th, 13:14
Thank you Sea Shepherd,
keep defending the gentle giants, against the money obsessed humans.
Mark Falzon
Feb 26th, 08:53
Thumbs up Sea Shepherd.
Peter Spiteri
Feb 26th, 06:55
We need something of this sort against hunting and bird-trapping in Malta.
david debattista
Feb 25th, 19:56
5 meters long with a bullet in the head. 25% of total fish catch is discarded. So when you read negative propaganda about the SEA SHEPHERD THINK OF THEIR AGENDA . ONCE TUNA OR SWORDFISH IS GONE GOD IS NOT GOING TO COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN AND CREATE IT AGAIN JUST BECAUSE YOU WHERE GREEDY .
david debattista
Feb 25th, 19:49
Well done SEA SHEPHERD Such people are the guardians of the environment . Pity we in Malta don't have what it takes to have such people defending the future of all humanity ! 90% of all the ocean's large fish have been fished out. Tuna ans Swordfish among other. That is why you see swordfish just a meter long !As a child I use to see swordfish 3 to 4 meters long one was 5 meters long
A Borg
Feb 25th, 18:01
Well done! we need more activists such as these in Malta too who don't stop at only words when it comes to safeguarding our environment.
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