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Anti-whaling activist group Sea Shepherd said Wednesday it had intercepted the Japanese fleet in its annual Southern Ocean hunt before a single harpoon has been fired.
Sea Shepherd claims to have saved the lives of 4,000 whales over the past eight whaling seasons with ever-greater campaigns of harassment against the Japanese harpoon fleet.
The militant environmentalist group said the Brigitte Bardot, a former ocean racer, had intercepted the harpoon ship Yushin Maru No. 3 in the Southern Ocean at a relatively northern latitude.
Given that the large concentrations of whales are found further south, closer to the Antarctic continent where there are high concentrations of krill, this would indicate that they have not yet begun whaling, said Brigitte Bardot captain Jean Yves Terlain.
Former Australian politician Bob Brown, who assumed leadership of the anti-whaling campaign from fugitive Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson due to legal issues earlier this month, said it was welcome news.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/29/anti-whaling-group-intercepts-japanese-fleet/
earthside
(6,960 posts)kudzu22
(1,273 posts)I freaking love that show.
oldhippie
(3,249 posts)nt
kudzu22
(1,273 posts)Maybe they will but in the past new seasons started airing in January.
SunSeeker
(51,578 posts)Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)"To hunt a species to extinction is not logical" - Spock
kwolf68
(7,365 posts)Keep on keeping on Captain Watson and crew.
life long demo
(1,113 posts)Raise a glass for the men and women of the Sea Shepherd!
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)nashville_brook
(20,958 posts)Bake
(21,977 posts)I'd be a lousy Sea Shepherd, though. Instead of throwing stink bombs at the whalers, I'd be more inclined to toss live grenades.
Bake
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Awesome.
Monk06
(7,675 posts)Needless to say those whalers never reached Antarctica. This is industrial fishing hiding behind science. The guilty secret is that except for government subsidized whale meat used for school lunches, almost all the whale meat is processed into domestically produced pet food.
This is an ecological crime and nothing the Japanese say will change that.