Japanese Whalers Using Humpbacks To Blackmail the International Whaling Commission

By: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
July 4, 2008 - “Let us kill the Piked and Fin whales or the Humpbacks will die,” is the message from Joji Morishita of the Japanese Institute for Cetacean Research.
Once again the Japanese whalers are threatening to slaughter Humpbacks unless they get permission to slaughter a thousand Piked whales and fifty [...]

Sea Shepherd crew to face trial next spring

-from HalifaxChronicle Herald
SYDNEY — A two-week block of court time has been set aside next spring for the trial of two European men on charges linked to this year’s Canadian seal hunt.
Alexander Cornelissen, 40, of Amsterdam and Peter Hammarstedt, 23, of Sweden were the captain and first officer aboard the anti-sealing vessel Farley Mowat when [...]

Seal hunt protesters urge EU ban

BRUSSELS (AFP) — Hundreds of anti-seal hunt demonstrators held a protest outside European Union headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday, demanding that the 27-nation bloc impose a total ban on seal products from Canada and elsewhere.
The protest outside the European Commission and European Council buildings in central Brussels, was held on the day France assumed the [...]

Anti-sealing activists enter not guilty pleas

Europeans deny Farley Mowat was within half-mile of sealers
By TERA CAMUS Nova Scotia News
SYDNEY — Two European men were not in court Wednesday but their Sydney lawyer entered not guilty pleas on their behalf to charges laid during this year’s seal hunt.
Capt. Alexander Cornelissen, 40, of Amsterdam and first officer Peter Hammarstedt, 23, of Sweden, [...]

Sea Shepherd vows to bill Canada $1,000 a day for seizing ship

By The Canadian Press
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society vowed Tuesday to bill Canada $1,000 for every day it holds the seized anti-sealing ship, the Farley Mowat.
The ship was boarded by RCMP officers on April 12 off Cape Breton during the annual East Coast seal hunt in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The ship’s 17-person crew [...]

“May Day” for the Seal Slaughter on May Day

Commentary by Captain Paul Watson
Founder and President of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
Its May Day today and May Day is the international nautical call for distress.
Today is also the day that the case of Her Majesty vs. Sea Shepherd is presented before the court in Sydney, Nova Scotia.
Farley Mowat Captain Alexander Cornelissen from the Netherlands and [...]

Farley Mowat bails out crew of namesake ship after N.S. arrest

SYDNEY, N.S. — Canadian writer Farley Mowat put up bail money Monday to free anti-sealing activists arrested on the waters off Cape Breton, saying the seizure of a ship named after him was a totalitarian act.
Mowat, 86, said he was deeply honoured when the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society named their vessel the Farley Mowat, and [...]

Canadian Coast Guard Rams Seal Defender Vessel

-from Sea Shepherd
The Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker CCGS Des Groseilliers twice rammed the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ship Farley Mowat today.
The Coast Guard had ordered the Farley Mowat to not approach the area where seals are being slaughtered. When the Farley Mowat did not comply, the Coast Guard rammed the vessel near the port aft [...]

Sea Shepherd Heads Home As Whaling Season Comes To A Close

Cheers to the Sea Shepherd crew for another hardcore season on the open sea. Love and respect to some serious direct action heroes.

-from seashepherd.org
There are less than 10 days left in the Japanese whaling season, and Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s ship, the Steve Irwin, has reached the limit of its fuel reserves.
“We have no alternative [...]

Sea Shepherd Crew Head South In Search Of Harpoons

-from http://www.seashepherd.org
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s ship, the Steve Irwin, has broken off its pursuit of the Nisshin Maru to focus on the harpoon vessels to the south.
At 1200 hours, Sea Shepherd changed course and began to head due south, as the Nisshin Maru continued westward. Contact was broken off with the Japanese factory ship at [...]