The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is to go to battle against Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary in the Antarctic for the fifth time, at the end of this month.
The Society’s founder Captain Paul Watson says : “We intend to sink the Japanese fleet economically. Our strategy is to prevent whales from being killed, to force the Japanese whalers to spend money on fuel without killing whales. We will once again intervene against illegal Japanese whaling and once again we intend to save the lives of as many whales as we can with the resources available to us. We have been the cause of the Japanese whaling fleet losing profits for three years in a row. We intend to make it a fourth year of red ink in the whaler’s books.”
Greenpeace, on the other hand, will not be fighting the whale wars in the Antarctic, focussing its energies amd monies instead on defending two of its activists for allegedly stealing whale meat bound for the black market, which could lead to a ten year imprisonment. Greenpeace says the arrests are politically motivated. The association is looking to lobby the Japanese from within Japan. “We have saved whales every year we’ve been in the Antarctic, but we want to end whaling for good and we can’t do that if all our resources and energy are focused in the Southern Ocean” says a Greenpeace spokesperson.
Greenpeace and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society have managed to reduce the number of Minke whales the Japanese have caught for “lethal reserach”, from 850 to 551.
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