Anti Whaling activists Sea Shepherd face increasingly violent reprisals from the Japanese whaling fllet that is in the Ross Sea, Antarctica. It is claimed that the Sea Shepherd group throw acid at the Japanese boats. This is in fact rotten butter, a long time tactic used by this group.
The Japanese whalers it is said are throwing back bits of metal, golf balls and whale blubber at the Sea Shepherd boat and now have resorted to bombarding the Sea Shepherd crew with high powered acoustic weapons designed for military use it is claimed.

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I read of these clashes with sorrow and elation. Sorrow that whaling is still in the psyche of so many nations and is employed as a political instrument. Elation that there are men and women who will risk all to defend what they believe to be right.

I am reminded of the many wise sayings of the great Mahatma Ghandi…one that springs to mind…”Truth never damages a cause that is just”

Clashes between the Japanese whaling fleet and the conservation group Sea Shepherd intensify in the Ross Sea. As the Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin attempted to hamper the transfer of dead whales to the factory processing ship the Nishin Maru there have been collisions between catcher boats and The Steve Irwin. As rotten butter are thrown at the Japanese fleet there have been reports of ball bearings and bit of metal and whale blubber being thrown back by Japanese crew men with some injuries being sustained.

Undaunted the Sea Shepherd groups resolve to continue their campaign of opposition in the Ross Sea counting every whale saved from the Japanese harpoons as a success. Captain Paul Watson of Sea Shepherd, a founding member of Greenpeace, has been urging the Australian government to uphold election promises to hold the Japanese to account over their infringements of international law by continuing to harvest whales for commercial use in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. Watson claims he will “back off” if Australia acts through the International courts. They are showing little sign of doing so.

The travesty of the Japanese claim to be hunting and killing these animals for research purposes is clear for all to see when the factory ship, the Nishin Maru, its scuppers running with blood and capable of butchering several whales an hour has the words RESEARCH emblazened on it’s side.