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NZ, AUS urged to close ports to Sea Shepherd (The Age)‏

Sent: January 5, 2009 5:23:31 PM

NOTE: Sea Shepherd has had vessel registrations revoked by Britain,
Belize, Liberia and Canada.
Last year it claimed its vessel were
registered by the Mohawk Nation in upstate New York. The Japanese are
objecting to The Netherlands' current registration of the vessel
'Steve Irwin', formerly called the 'Robert Hunter'. The Sea Shepherd
Conservation Society is a tax-exempt corporation in the State of
Oregon.
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The Age (AUS)
Close ports to terror ship: whaling body
January 4, 2009 - 8:32AM
http://news.theage.com.au/world/close-ports-to-terror-ship-whaling-body-20090104-79kr.html

The Australian and New Zealand governments should close their ports to
an anti-whaling vessel committing "criminal acts" in the Southern
Ocean, says the Japan Whaling Association (JWA).

JWA president Keiichi Nakajima said the Dutch-registered vessel Steve
Irwin, which was committing "terror" on the Antarctic high seas, was
running low on fuel and apparently heading to either New Zealand or
Australia to refuel.

"The request for port entry from the Sea Shepherd-Animal Planet crew
on board the Dutch vessel must be rejected," he said on Sunday.

"Otherwise these countries will be complicit in any further attacks."

The Steve Irwin has stopped its pursuit of the Japanese whaling fleet
in the Southern Ocean to return to port for refuelling.

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society vessel's captain, Paul Watson,
said efforts so far had been successful in stopping the Japanese whale
hunt.

"We have engaged them, we have stopped their whaling activities for
two weeks and we have successfully chased them out of the Australian
Antarctic Territorial waters," he said in a statement.

"We now have to return to land to refuel.

"We don't have the luxury of refuelling at sea like the Japanese fleet
has," Capt Watson said.

Nakajima said the JWA knew there were different views on whaling
around the world.

"But the actions of the Sea Shepherd crew committing violence under
the Dutch flag are no longer a whaling issue, but an issue of human
life and safety at sea.

"We can never accept people resorting to violence and intimidation to
get across their point," Nakajima said.

He said the crew of the Steve Irwin had no qualms about using the
Dutch registry to "facilitate their eco-terrorism at sea".

"The Dutch maritime and legal authorities must live up to their
international obligations to maintain safety at sea.

"The Sea Shepherd terror acts are far beyond mere protest."

Nakajima urged the Australian and New Zealand governments to reject
Sea Shepherd's request to berth in their countries.

The Steve Irwin had chased the Japanese fleet for two weeks and for
more than 3,000km from the extreme Western end of their hunting
territory near Commonwealth Bay in the Australian Antarctic Territory,
to the Eastern side of the Ross Sea, Capt Watson said.

The vessel would now return to the nearest available port to refuel
before heading back out in pursuit of the fleet again as quickly as
possible, he said.

The Japanese whaling fleet plans to kill about 1,000 whales this
summer, using a loophole in a 1986 global whaling moratorium that
allows "lethal research" on the ocean giants.

The Australian government has appealed for calm on the high seas.

(c) 2009 NZPA

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Whalers accuse SS of disrupting search for missing crewman (ICR)‏

Sent: January 8, 2009 4:47:02 PM


THE INSTITUTE OF CETACEAN RESEARCH
MEDIA RELEASE
SEA SHEPHERD DISRUPTS VESSELS ENGAGED IN MISSING SAILOR SEARCH
KYODO SENPAKU KAISHA, LIMITED /
7 January, 2009
http://www.icrwhale.org/pdf/090107Release.pdf

The Dutch vessel Steve Irwin has not left the Antarctic and used the
distress signal sent from Maritime NZ to locate the Japanese research
vessels.

According to Maritime NZ, the Dutch vessel did not respond to the call
put out by Maritime NZ, but instead headed to the search area to
harass the Japanese vessels.

The Japanese research ships are currently engaged in the search for
the missing 30-year old oiler, Mr Hajime Shirasaki.

The Japanese vessels reported that at 2000hrs (Japan time), Tuesday, 6
January 2009, a darkened and unlit vessel appeared in the search area
and was immediately identified as the Dutch vessel, Steve Irwin.
This is so wrong as any vessel seeking to help in search would have full lighting and search lights on around the whole circumference of their ship. Leave it to Watson to lie about his reasons for having a darkened ship in a search area. The
Steve Irwin approached completed darkened and only switched on minimum
regulation lighting once it was identified.

The Steve Irwin called the Japanese vessels stating: "We have come to
help in the search for the missing crewman".

The Japanese vessels responded: "We will not accept any help nor
cooperation from the Sea Shepherd who has been harassing our research
vessels". Steve Irwin responded: "We will restart harassing the
whaling vessels once the search is over".

However, the Dutch vessel began to harass and disrupt navigation of
the Japanese vessels, even approaching abnormally (to zero point two
miles) to the sighting vessel Kyoshin Maru No. 2, which was engaged in
the search.

The President of Kyodo Senpaku Kaisha, Mr Kazuo Yamamura, said:
"Despite our loss and that we are in the midst of a search, the Dutch
vessel has begun to disrupt the navigation of our vessels in the
search."

Mr Yamamura said: "There is a distinctly uncaring nature about Sea
Shepherd people in that they are prepared to disrupt the search for a
missing seaman for their own ends."

The Director-General of the Institute of Cetacean Research, Mr Minoru
Morimoto, said: "Clearly the Netherland's vessel made use of the
distress call and came to disturb our search. This kind of behavior
should be condemned for its lack of humanity, and all concerned
countries should take the strongest measures against Sea Shepherd, in
line with the IWC resolution on safety at sea by taking decisive
actions to protect the security of our crews."

Mr Morimoto said research on Antarctic whale resources is important
because the ICRW requires that the IWC's regulations must be based on
scientific findings.

Also visit: http://www.icrwhale.org/gpandsea-img.ht


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Sea Shepherd lawyer drops out of seal hunt case (Cape Breton Chronicle Herald)‏

Sent: January 15, 2009 1:22:55 PM

The Chronicle Herald

C.B. lawyer drops out of Farley Mowat seal hunt case
By LAURA FRASER Cape Breton Bureau
Fri. Jan 9 - 7:54 AM
http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotia/1099781.html

SYDNEY — The local lawyer representing two European anti-sealing
activists charged during last year's seal hunt has withdrawn from the
case.

Guy LaFosse appeared in Sydney provincial court Thursday to confirm he
will no longer be the lawyer for Alexander Cornelissen, 40, or Peter
Hammarstedt, 24, the captain and first officer, respectively, of the
anti-sealing vessel Farley Mowat. The RCMP boarded the ship at sea
last April and arrested both men.

The ship is registered to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a
controversial group based in Washington state that has made headlines
around the world for its militant approach to environmental activism.

Mr. LaFosse did not tell the court why he was withdrawing from the
case and did not return phone calls later in the day.

His former clients are charged with coming within one-half nautical
mile, or a bit less than a kilometre, of sealers without their
permission in the Gulf of St. Lawrence last spring.

Neither of the accused was in court Thursday.

Both men left the country after the activist group put up $10,000 bail
for their release.

But they are expected to return to Canada for a two-week trial
scheduled to begin April 27, according to comments Mr. LaFosse made
last July when he entered not guilty pleas on their behalf.
( lfraser@herald.ca)



I know this lawyer personally. I couldn't figure out why he took this case to begin with as he isn't one to get involved in show boat theatrics of a court room drama. My guess is, the more he became to know the Sea Shepherd defendants the more he disliked defending them.


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Some fine satire here though the author only took note of the younger seals weight, while making his point. The truth is the adult male Harbor seal weighs in at 375 while the female comes in around 330 lbs. The main seal hunted is the Harp Seal and it weighs in at 253 to 400 lbs. Meanwhile the Grey seal male can reach 880 lbs while females tag in at 550 lbs. They are not eating turnips on the high seas and they are having a hard impact on Atlantic Ecology.

Government of Canada Acts to Protect Atlantic Fish Population

Web Talk - Newfoundland and Labrador
Thursday January 15, 2009

Government of Canada Acts to Protect Atlantic Fish Population


Against incredible odds the determined people of Atlantic Canada are working diligently to curb the ever increasing menace of a large ice rat population that is causing untold damage to the Nation’s commercial fish stocks.



The Canadian government, in partnership with local fishermen, is planning an organized and efficient hunt of the growing ice rat population in March of this year.



Large bodied ice rats can often found along the East Coast of Canada in the late winter and early spring.



Recent population estimates for this dangerous carnivore, some weighing in excess of 100 pounds, place the population at between 5 and 6 million animals.



This number is more than 10 times the human population in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador near where most of the ice rats migrate each spring.



In recent years there have been an increasing number of reports of large ice rats traveling in packs of a dozen or more, trapping large numbers of valuable commercial fish species, such as the endangered Atlantic cod, into local bays and decimating thousands at a time in a wild feeding frenzy.



Ice rats have been videotaped leaving the ice, swimming up under large cod fish, ripping the stomachs out of them and eating their soft underbellies before leaving the rest of the fish behind and moving on to its next victim.



Recently small numbers of ice rats have also been spotted further inland on the island of Newfoundland, in places where they have never been seen before. These individuals are believed to be traveling along river beds and streams to hunt and eat inland fish such as salmon or trout.



Environmentally alert and ecologically sensitive local fishermen have expressed no interest in completely ridding the coastal areas of the migrating ice rats since they are a native to the area. Fishermen are instead hopeful that an annual hunt with a well managed quota will at least help ensure that the population does not expand or encroach further into more populated areas.



As one fisherman put it, “We just want to keep the things under control. If we don’t there won’t be fish left.”



Recently the group animal rights group PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) which is known for its unique and often quirky activities when it comes to promoting their cause also sounded the alarm by singling out the world’s fish as a species at risk.



In promoting the protection of the ocean’s fish populations PETA has begun referring to all fish species as “Sea Kittens” in the hope that people will be less likely to eat them.



As PETA campaign co-ordinator Ashley Byrne told Canwest News Service this week, "Knowing that the fish sticks in the school cafeteria are really made out of tortured sea kittens makes most kids want to lose their lunch."



With a similar goal in mind, Canadian fishermen are also hoping to protect the overall Atlantic fish or “Sea Kitten” population by limiting the growing numbers of ice rats, sometimes known as harp seals, which are known to destroy millions of tons of “Sea Kittens” each and every year.

By Myles Higgins



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