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conservation success - have forced activists Japan whaling stop
By Frank Patalong
Aggressive environmentalists Japan's whaling lobby an unprecedented defeat added. In the middle of the season makes the whaling fleet returns and stop its use. The activists of Sea Shepherd had a race comes with the hunters and made it impossible to catch.
Because of repeated "attacks" by the marine conservation organization Sea Shepherd has Japan's controversial whaling initially completed . Tatsuya Nakaoku, a spokesman for the Japanese Fisheries Agency said on Wednesday that Japan tenth the actual fishing since the February was discontinued because it continued to "violent disruptions" had come through the Walschützer.
Their ships had the Japanese whaling fleet since its expiration in December 2010 Disabled continuously. bind with three ships, the "Bob Barker," the "Steve Irwin" and "Gojira," had succeeded in the Walschützern, the bulk of the whaling fleet, which should kill this winter actually 945 whales for "research purposes".
Two of the three Japanese harpoon vessels were shaded so narrow that it does not catch came. In one case, the activists managed to get a rope in the propeller shaft of a fishing boat, the harpoon boat was then only limited maneuverability. After the activists also managed to delay the refueling of the whalers significantly, the factory ship Nisshin Maru was trying to sell to the East.
On Friday of last week left the Nisshin Maru, while the Japanese whaling area and headed to the southern tip of South America - from a Japanese perspective, a breakout attempt from the perspective of Sea Shepherd a roundup. Meanwhile, reports Sea Shepherd, the Nisshin Maru 2,000 miles move outside their catchment areas controlled Chilean waters, but still outside the Chilean sea area. Apparently the Walflotte had tried to hang the Sea-Sherpherd boats with their longer range. The calculation, the Walschützern could run out of fuel left, but does not occur.
is now the 'Nisshin Maru' of the Chilean Marine monitoring: Chile bans in its waters, not only to whaling, but also the transport of Walt ropes.
Sea Shepherd Conservationists Captain Blood
for Sea Shepherd does the early termination of this year the Japanese whaling the biggest success so far . The organization, founded in 1977 with their spectacular stunts makes headlines again and again: It is considered one of the most active, but also as the most uncompromising in the whale conservation organizations, many critics are activists as radicals. Both sides accused in recent years increasingly rougher methods.
have documented a number of collisions made headlines worldwide in January 2010, the sinking of the Sea Shepherd boat "Ady Gil," which broke in two after it was hit by a harpoon boat. A New Zealand Commission of Inquiry was later that the debt was for it to search for both parties: activists like whalers had taken the collision into account.
The captain of the boat, Peter Bethune, was a few days after the sinking of the "Ady Gil" fixed and arrested as he boarded the harpoon boat from a jet ski out. According to the activists, he was just trying the alleged perpetrators of the damage a bill to bring. Due to violent attacks, vandalism and other crimes, a Japanese court sentenced him later to two years probation. go
the "black block" of the sea
an American organization whose vessels including under the Dutch and Australian flag, follows a much harder line than about Greenpeace, comes from their environment, some of the founding members. Opponents of the organization funded by donations you criticize a form of eco-terrorism.
Sea Shepherd even sailing under a kind of pirate flag and takes claim for themselves, police duties at sea run. This goes back to the sinking illegal whalers operating . Ten such harpoon boats will sink the organization since 1979 have.
towards people organizing violent acts while in its claim , injuries are still always on both sides. The regular resources used to disrupt work processes, including travel and Rammaktionen disabilities. Particular criticism reaps Sea Shepherd and over again because of butyric acid-throws, which came through it several times to injury. Even in the current campaign "No Compromise" back to bottles with butyric acid to the personnel whaling ships have been thrown. Answer by whalers, the site with water cannon, said to but also with the use of tear gas.
The statement of the Japanese fishing authorities, there is a temporary cessation of whaling to be resumed when the security situation permits that. A few weeks before the end of the whaling season, but now it is very unlikely that this year will come to that. According to information provided by Greenpeace, whaling in Japan itself is under increasing criticism: Decreasing demand for whale meat would have led to considerable over-capacity storage. Even these storage costs breeds resentment, to come to that now account for the failure of the fishing season 2011.
The pressure on Japan to stop whaling, will grow in the coming months. negotiated From May, the International Court in The Hague of an action in Australia against Japan . The charge: Japan run with his allegedly scientific whaling motivated the moratorium in force since 1986 against the commercial killing of whales, the meat trade in the country, however. As part of the ongoing research program for 23 years allegedly been about 10,000 whales were killed in the waters of Antarctica.
reaffirmed on Wednesday the Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and New Zealand Prime Minister John Key in discussions in Wellington mutual support in their attempt to whaling in the Antarctic to stop for good. In mid-December should the two countries had agreed that New Zealand do not act as Mitkläger against Japan, but support the process through submissions to the court. Parallel to New Zealand will seek to obtain the level of the International Whaling Conference a ban. A ruling of the International Court is not expected before 2013.
