Ocean Sentry
A former Australian Environment Minister, who is now on the board of the Sea Shepherd Society, says he is thrilled the group”s campaign this year reduced the Japanese catch.
The Japanese Fisheries Agency yesterday said it had planned to kill close to a thousand Minke whales in Antarctic waters this year.
That number was reduced to 670 because of disruptions by anti-whaling activists on the protest ship Steve Irwin.
Ian Campbell, who is on the Sea Shepherd’s international advisory board, says that is music to his ears.
“They went down there to destroy over a thousand and they came back with many hundreds below their quota,” Mr Campbell said.
“That’s what the Sea Shepherd sets out to do. We set out to save whales and the Japanese Fishing Agency are telling all of the supporters of Sea Shepherd around the world that we’ve been successful. So I thank the Japanese for their support.”
(From abc.net.au)
