Sea Shepherd

Sea Shepherd:Latest update news about Sea Shepherd.Sea Shepherd activists have found and blockaded Japan’s key factory ship Nisshin Maru in the Antarctic.Last week the Nisshin Maru gave Sea Shepherd vessels the slip in thick ice and was able to refuel, breaking a month-long grip by the activists on the whaling fleet.The conservationists said their scout vessel Gojira located the Nisshin Maru on the far north-eastern tip of the Ross Sea overnight.
Japan has rejected foreign demands that it abandon whaling as hypocritical, and has denounced as dangerous and illegal Sea Shepherd’s tactics of manoeuvring its vessels to directly obstruct whaling ships while bombarding their crews with rancid butter.They occupied two of its three harpoon ships for weeks, delayed a refuelling operation, and, according to the ICR, fouled the propellors of one of the harpoon ship Yushin Maru No.3.Japan’s Institute of Cetacean Research said the Gojira deployed a propeller fouling rope, approached dangerously close to the Nisshin Maru’s bow, and navigated across the mother ship’s course.