Overfishing: Oceans Are Dying
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| Watson to whalers: We will never surrender |
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| Wednesday, 10 February 2010 18:16 | |||
"We will never retreat or surrender the southern oceans till we drive the Japanese whaling fleet out of here. We are not going to back down on this, and we are getting stronger every year. Every year we come down with more support." For the fifth year running now, Watson, the charismatic 60-year-old founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, is pursuing Japan's whaling fleet across the frigid Southern Ocean with his ragtag "Neptune's Navy" of supporters. Two collisions already this year between Japan's "research whaling" ships and Sea Shepherd vessels have refocused the world's attention on this annual cat-and-mouse game in the deep south. Whereas Sea Shepherd's Bob Barker boat escaped with a gash down its side after a clash with the Yushin Maru No. 3 whaler at the weekend, the group's high-tech, $2.5 million Ady Gil trimaran was not so lucky, sinking after its encounter with the Japan fleet's Shonan Maru No. 2 in January. Each side blames the other for both incidents."This year we came down with three vessels. We lost one, but we came down with three. Next year we will come down with another three, maybe four, I don't know," vows Watson from on board the Sea Shepherd flagship, the MV Steve Irwin. "We do what we do with the resources available to us, and every year those resources become stronger. We will not abandon the whales. Ships are expendable, the whales are not." Sea Shepherd is a nonprofit organization that advocates "direct action" as a means to its stated end: halting the destruction of habitat and slaughter of wildlife in the world's oceans, thereby conserving and protecting ecosystems and species. Since the group's founding in 1977, Sea Shepherd has been involved in activities related to "research, investigation, and enforcement of laws, treaties, resolutions and regulations established to protect marine wildlife worldwide," says Media Director Amy Baird.... Read Full Article by Manami Okazaki 
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Despite speaking on a bad line from somewhere off Antarctica, the message from Paul Watson was loud and clear:
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