Sea Shepherd to confront Japanese vessels after first whale harpooned

Posted on February 15, 2013 by Adam Westlake in Features, National with 57 Comments
Sea Shepherd to confront Japanese vessels after first whale harpooned

The animal activist group Sea Shepherd has said that Japan’s whaling fleet harpooned its first minke on Friday evening in the Australian Antarctic waters. While the Yushin Maru No 2, one of the fleet’s harpoon ships, is now trying to bring the dead whale back to the factory ship, Nisshin Maru, the Sea Shepherd vessel Bob Barker is preventing the transfer by positioning itself between the two.

A statement from the group, which is known for taking extreme action against Japanese whalers in previous years, says the harpoon vessel has “made nine unsuccessful attempts to transfer the dead whale, coming as close as 10 meters to the Bob Barker,” however they have not moved. Sea Shepherd’s fear is that the Yushin Maru No 2 will move on to kill more whales if it is able to transfer its catch.

Meanwhile, members of Australia‘s opposition government are upset that a whale was allegedly killed in the country’s waters. Japan and several other countries do not accept the territorial claim over the Australian Antarctic waters. Greg Hunt, an environment spokesman, accuses the government of deliberately turning a blind eye to this year’s hunt, despite warnings over a possible confrontation between the Japanese fleet and Sea Shepherd.

Sea Shepherd was dealt its own blow yesterday, when the US Supreme Court rejected their request to have an injunction overturned that orders the group to stay away from the whaling vessels. The injunction was awarded to Japan’s whaling industry in December and states that Sea Shepherd and its leader, Paul Watson, will not take any action that would threaten the safety either sides’ ships.

[via Courier Mail]
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  • Chopchop2012

    Australian Antarctic waters, it’s misleading. UN never recognized as Australian Antarctic waters.

    • BNB

      I don’t find this misleading at all. Australia has made a claim to these waters. It’s not unusual for countries to claim territory.

    • kallanbhai

      Just like those misleading occupation of Guantanamo, Hawaii, etc

  • ddpalmer

    “Japan and several other countries do not accept the territorial claim over the Australian Antarctic waters.”
    Well since only 4 other countries accept the claim I guess “several” means about 191.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1607983961 Alan Meyer

    Typical of Sea shepherd and other animal right actevists rather see thing being killed and wasted than sustainably utalisation ther of useless idiots!!!!!!!

    • BNB

      You have presented logical reasoning that I would expect from my pet cat.

    • Shell

      Respect for wildlife is what this is. Fuck the Japs. They killed it, so why should they profit from it. Not that they would as Japs are not eating whale meat. Still 1000′s of tons of the meat sitting in freezers in japan from 5 years ago. PEOPLE DONT EAT IT. They only hunt because the world says don’t. Alan useless idiots? What the fuck are you doing to save these beautiful creatures. They will become extinct if we allow it to keep happening. And your kids kids kids wont know what a whale is except in a book next to the dinosaurs. You need to correct your English too.

      • Hayashi

        Hey come on, this is not an issue of Japan vs. foreigners, this is what the Japanese govt says to make citizens support whaling. There are many Japanese who do not support the whaling, but there is little that can be done. Remember there are Japanese nationals on board SS vessels fighting to save whales. The issue is that of whaling, no matter what country is involved.

      • Griffith

        The issue is about animal conservation, not some racist hate you seem like your spewing here. (“Fuck the Japs”? wow…) Grow some brains and learn not to lump a whole nation. That or learn to write proper english so people dont misunderstand what your intentions are.

    • Hayashi

      You misunderstand, if a dead whale is able to turn profit, it justifies further whaling from a business point of view. Stopping the profit is a strategy to stop whaling, so it’s not about wasting the dead whale. I think that as long as profit is motivation, commercial whaling will never be sustainable, because with so much only hanging hands, there is corruption.

      • Hayashi

        I meant to say, “with so much money changing hands, there will be corruption”

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1441540920 Dale Lee

    Shouldn’t America go do something against this terrorist group – Sea Shepard

    • kallanbhai

      Ha ha ha The blood suckers who are creating imbalance in our ocean are now calling Sea Shepherds as terrorist. Matter of time before we take out the tooth of all those whale and shark eaters.

  • Garrett

    Go sea shepherd go. The Japanese rape the oceans like no other. The JARPA “research” program has been wasting millions of dollars every year. Taking money from taunami relief funds, and now the tax payers to be floated. What a joke. End the hunt and take care of your people instead of killing intelligent, social animals. Let alone in waters thousands of miles from your own land.

    • snyder

      Surely you arent without sin to condemn another race. It is easy to point the wrong of others and ignore your own.

  • pikmintaro

    Romans 1:25 “Who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator.”

    That basically sums up the paganism of these Whale worshipping fools, of course if the Whales are going extinct then sure they should be conserved, but otherwise it’s just another example of our increasingly Satanic, and secular world.

    Sea Sheperd, is Sea Satan, that’s all there is to it, they’ll get the full reward for their evil once they die.

    • fred

      Good trolling-moron.

      • Hayashi

        Hey Fred you want to see a good troll, just wait till Ryohei Uchida gets here, I challenge anyone to find a greater Troll than that guy.

    • kallanbhai

      I am also another part of satan supporter and the moment I see you I will take you and throw behind the door of hell which is one way traffic only.

      Never seen jokers before.

  • http://twitter.com/46nd2 46nd2

    The Japan Gov just want to play Games and needlessly kill whales, I think those that are fed up can fairly easily kill Japans Olympic hopes then maybe the economy too.

    After the environmental concerns are addressed in the west the primitive act of killing cetaceans can get the attention it deserves.

  • Sun Wu

    what scares me most: Seashepherd SAYS Japanese hunt whales in Australian waters…
    Seashepherd SAYS they are confronting whalers blocking the Nishin Maru…
    …and media worldwide bring it including OLD pictures.
    Can anyone POSSIBLY explain to me why there still is NO pictures of recent nature available?
    Can anyone POSSIBLY explain to me how it is possible even media of good reputation bring strories after Paul Watson, known to be a NOTORIOUS lier, says something without providing the pictures matching his stories?
    Just for your information: in 2013 SS-Ships are not black anymore but painted in this camoflage-style…

    • kallanbhai

      Yes if you want to know then the answer is for strategic purpose they don’t want to reveal the identity till end of season.

      Lier and Captain Watson yes it is possible but for a good cause not to monger war over nations for economic reasons. SS is not made of emotional activist but intelligent one who knows how to deal with a cunning fox in their own backyard.

  • Sun Wu

    Now you got me smiling…just read some of this discussion here, was not aware of its history – you even managed SKIPPER Paul Watson to crawl out of his dump… :)
    Everything seems to have been said…if Ryohei Uchida is a paid Troll he is definately worth his money.
    Come on guys, not everybody having a brain is paid by dark forces…and even if he is then I would say ICR is going to finish Paul Watson before they stop to hunt whales…some cultures do have this little problem with loosing your face.
    Anyways, if Ryohei is paid I would say you not only witness the last moments of SeaShepherd… it would be the first steps taken to end a highly defizient industry to get rid of whaling which Japan does not really want anymore.

    Since Paul Watson is responsible for a delay of a couple of years I believe him to be responsible for the death of 3000 whales (think this is the amount he claims to have saved, correct?)!
    Make banners, not war!
    Unfortunately Greenpeace is run by a bunch of cowards who are in permanent fear of making PR-mistakes. During the last two years they missed an incredible amount of chances to give our fragile earth back its voice! Paul Watson was one of the chances, too late, now others will take care of him…FORWARD ON GLOBAL WARMING

    • Think

      As much as I am against whaling, it is true that Paul Watson and his cronies like Scott West are notorious liars, exaggerators and manipulators of truth and, in the case of West, apparently motivated as much by racism as any sincere environmental conscious.

      It is also fair to say that their sloppiness and attitude has driven public opinion against environmentalism and animals rights and to the side of the whaling and dolphin hunting communities. They have sucked up lots of donations for Sea Shepherd but cost other more sincere and factually accurate groups.

      In the case of the Antarctic whaling there is every chance they have prolonged it, the best Sea Shepherd will be able to give their adherents is a false “victory” when Japan finally gives it up when it gets the right to hunt whales in its own waters which Sea Shepherd will not be able to do anything about as they have trashed any possibility of gaining public support and legitimacy in Japan.

      What then?

      Sea Shepherd is actually enabling the whalers to get what they really want – whaling around Japan – and giving the opposition the material by which to valid their position that all environmental and animal activists are dishonest, irrational and only in it for the money.

      • Sun Wu

        I would be happy for whaling to end! The dying of a harpooned whale is said to take hours which are filled by pain and struggle….
        Therefore I do not agree with Ryohei Uchida saying whaling is like cows or lambs, even torture of industrialized mass production is not coming anywhere close.
        Besides this I would sign most of what I read by this paid troll :)
        Japanese whaling is going to end. It is only a few old people whose source of protein happened to be whalemeat after worldwar II who still buy a few grams of it once a while in nostalgic moments.
        This problem is solved by biology, and since young people hardly NEVER buy whalemeat I believe the Greenpeace campaign IN Japan to be successful. (smile Paul).
        The damage Paul Watson has done is immense, whaling would have been ended a while ago with someone feeling responsible to face this environmental populism on the back of poor whales.
        Reuters, one of the top news-agencies, is currently circulating an OLD video of the BLACK Bob Barker saying this incident happened YESTERDAY inside AUSTRALIAN waters.
        Inside Australia there is currently a former politician from the Greens whose career must have been far beyond Zenit before joining SS getting media-attention for something, which at least at the moment I would call completely MADE up.
        This is the real scandal especially since Brown and Watson start to play the card of national souverainity (insided Australian waters). Besides all the damage beeing done to whales, environment and environmental NGOs this is bad. It is one of these direct attack on principles of democracy found wherever you have Seashepherd.
        Watsons belongs in Prison, and the Australian Brown anywhere but in parliament….

        • Think

          I actually think you are right and that both the whaling and dolphin slaughter will end because of the ageing of the population, the death of the post-war generation, and persuasive campaigning … not because of Sea Shepherd’s actions.

          The sad truth is, at that point the morally bankrupt Paul Watson will claim it as his victory and his adherents will laud him for it.

          There is a saying in the environmental world that if the Nisshin Maru was hit my a lightning bolt and sank, Paul Watson would claim it as his victory.

          I, personally, am not against direct action. Sometimes it can work. Sea Shepherd had a huge opportunity to do some good but have allowed Paul Watson to squander it by his continuous lies, falsehoods and exaggerations.

          As far as I can see, the reason he does this is to reap donations. By making adherents angry or upset and exaggerating “victories” and claims, in the manner of a football commentator, he excited his adherents at which point their donate.

          Understandably, he needs the donations to keep the fleet in the Antarctic running but it appears now that he and the racist Scott West in Taiji have now done so much damage to their own cause that they have made their effect in Japan and direct action in Antarctic impotent or counter-effective.

          Unfortunately, idiocy, moral bankruptcy and self-defeat, and even the sort of low level racism they indulge in, are not crimes, however, from the environmental/conservation point of view, the damage to the movement and the possible incitement to the continuation of the slaughters should rest upon their consciences.

          I’d guess Watson questions whether he has or has not caused the prolonging of the conflict and slaughter. I’d guess his cult members cannot afford to question how much their actions have actually damaged their cause, especially in Japan.

          I don’t think the Japanese ministry really gives a damn nor will stop because of them, and I do think it would carry on just to spite Watson. That is the problem.

      • Hayashi

        That would be ironic indeed, I must admit. But in that regard I don’t think we can blame Paul Watson only , we’d have to blame all supporters of SS, that’s a lot of people!

  • Cassandra

    Sea Shepherd is not a terrorist group. Whales are sentient beings that feel pain. What the Japanese are doing is barbaric. I donated to them when they had that horrible earthquake, but I am disgusted by the fact that they continue to engage in the slaughter of innocent mammals. They and the Faroese are contributing to the destruction of marine life.

    • http://www.facebook.com/gillian.easterwood Gillian Easterwood

      Only the Japanese and the Faroese??? You forget the big Oil Corporations and all the others that are polluting the oceans, and that have caused more damage to marine life than Japanese yearly catching of a a couple of 100 whales, or the Faroese incidental whale harvestings!

      • kallanbhai

        Yes agree with you on your issue but again two mistakes doesn’t make one correct.

    • ddpalmer

      Cows are sentient and feel pain. Pigs are sentient and feel pain. Crabs are sentient and feel pain. Salmon are sentient and feel pain.

      • Think

        Well done for realizing that … so stop causing them suffering too.

        What’s your point? Most people on this side of the debate don’t.

        Presumably you believe that all living things should suffer for the “right” of a small proportion of men to financially profit from their death and suffering?

        Look, that is a typically lame defence the Japanese whaling industry has been pumping out for years. It’s as illogical and childish as the rest of the propaganda they pump out.

        It is based on their belief that “all Japanese are the same” therefore “all Westerners must be the same” and a persecution myth that the issue is about “The West” versus “Japan”. Their small minds have been trained, from childhood, to believe that, “all Japanese eat whales, all westerners eat pigs and cows” and that they are the same.

        Logically, that does not work.

        The debate is not about “Westerners versus Japanese” and, culturally, historically and statistically, not all Japanese eat whales.

        It is about a few men (Japanese and Westerners) who seek to make money by killing whales in a truly inhumane manner, versus the international animal rights, environmental and conservation movements who are supported by many scientists.

        Eating whales is not the universal Japanese culture the whale slaughter industry would like everyone to believe it is. It is a modern phenomenon made possible and brought about by the Americans.

        Even meat eaters are disgusted by the inhumane death and suffering these animals are put through. It defies all modern animal welfare laws.

        Your argument is truly weak and pathetic. You are basically just copy and pasting what you have read elsewhere. Why?

        Seriously? What is it that motivates you?

        What is the problem? You don’t have enough real friends in the world so instead you get attention by trolling blogs to try and upset “liberals” or something?

        • kallanbhai

          Well said friend.

        • ddpalmer

          My point is that saying hunting whale is bad because they are sentient and feel pain is like saying night follows day.

          What is your point except that you have no real life of friends an so have time to post long screeds about nothing?

          • Think

            Your analogy does not work. Night and day don’t cause unnecessary suffering and environmental destruction.

            We cannot stop night following day whereas we can stop unnecessary suffering and environmental destruction.

          • ddpalmer

            Killing whales doesn’t equate to environmental destruction. Being a bit melodramatic aren’t we.

          • Think

            No, not at all. Although your being a little pedantic about what I have written in just one post rather than connect it with the rest of what I have written, you obviously have no understanding of the role whales play in the marine ecosphere.

            This is part of the problem. The capitalist interests view whales merely as a giant beefsteak floating around the oceans waiting to be “harvested” without being conscious of the vast and intricate web of life they place a part it.

            Having said that, I emphasized earlier that the whale campaign is merely an emblematic tip of the iceberg, it’s a symbolic battle against the forces which are raping and destroying the marine environment, such as the giant bottom trawling and purse seine fishing industries which are driving other species to extinction.

            You should realise that the anti-whaling, anti-dolphin campaigns are not the end gaol of the fight, they are only the beginning of a far bigger and longer war.

          • ddpalmer

            “This is part of the problem. The capitalist interests view whales merely as a giant beefsteak floating around the oceans waiting to be “harvested” without being conscious of the vast and intricate web of life they place a part it.”
            But that claim is a lie.
            Just using the US as an example. You do know that hunters and the hunting industry provide the majority of funds for conservation projects. And who more than the evil capitalist have a vested interest in ensuring the resource they harvest continues to exist?
            Then their is the fact, oft repeated by anti-whalers, that whale meat demand is shrinking. So what good evil capitalist would continue to take more product than they can sell especially when the costs are so high.
            Oh, wait I can hear it now. “But what about the tons of whale meat rotting in storage?” Well since the whale research industry is funded by the government they make their money whether people buy the processed left overs from the research or not. If the proposal Japan made 3 years ago had been accepted then market forces would take effect and whaling would naturally shrink.

          • Think

            You cannot “conserve” something by killing it, any more than you can “coexist” with a whale by it.

            Unless, of course, the Japanese whale slaughter industry means “coexisting” (one of its key buzz words), by having the whale digested and reconstituted into ones own body in the same way the obese co-exist with beef burger in their colons.

            It’s rhetoric of the most absurd nature.

            ddpalmer, you’ve already established on this website that you are willing and able to make completely false, misleading or exaggerated statements, if you’re going to make a claim, please back it up with clear and specific references so we can judge what it is you are really stating.

            Thank you

            To control nature in order to kill in it is still self-interest and hardly noble conservation nor inspired by love; except the love of killing and the insensitivity of causing others suffering.

            We call that psychopathy and that is part of the problem. Some of these people and especially the corporations are literally psychopaths.

  • Kim

    Japanese whalers are now targeting individuals. To me this seems a clear indication how out of tutch ICR or Japanese whaling are with reality.

    They may limit Paul Watson or in fact the US devision of Sea Shepherd being actively involved in this or future whaling campaigns in the arctics. But they fail to see these attempt to limit Sea Shepherd anti whaling campaign will not change the opinion of the world nor will it change the resistance that Japanese whaling will meet in the arctics during their hunt or should I say ” research “.

    The whaling war will be wun by public opinion. ICR or Japanese whaling will not be able to change or win this media war as their actions can not be justified.

    Ignorance and public resistance from the world will be their downfall. Each year additional Sea Shepherd ships will be added to their fleet. And it’s very clear that their support is increasing not only in numbers but aso political support.

    • ddpalmer

      No the whaling war will be won by changing the opinion of the people in the countries that hunt whales. And the SSCS’s actions actually make that harder and thus prolong whaling rather than help bring it to an end.

      • Think

        In an issue that involves migratory animals, it is by default an international issue.

        In an issue that involves a species or the marine environment as a whole, it is by default an international issue.

        Apologists of the whaling industry in Japan, and it seems those who have been offended by Sea Shepherd in the past, like to frame this as a nationalist or imperialist issue but it is not.

        They do so partly because they are aware that democracy, and in particular NGO voices, are in a weak state within Japan. It is, of course, a ‘moving the goalposts’ or ‘raising the bar’ in an attempt to slow down or weaken the growing international public concern over such barbaric practises.

        It is even more obvious where Japan, at an international level, succours the support of micro-nations with even weaker democracies using everything from inappropriate “development” bribes to prostitutes and entertainment.

        • ddpalmer

          “It is even more obvious where Japan, at an international level, succours
          the support of micro-nations with even weaker democracies using
          everything from inappropriate “development” bribes to prostitutes and
          entertainment.”

          LOL!!

          You mean the tactic started by the anti-whaling nations and NGO’s?

          • Think

            No, we are talking about the Japanese government and some of its “aid” to small island nations.

            Corporate entertainment involving female escorts is still the norm in Japan. NGO could never afford it.

            (I’d drop the ‘LOLs’, along with the nature of your comments, they make you look somewhat demented).

          • ddpalmer

            Yes, the exact same things that the anti-whaling nations and NGO’s have been doing since the 80′s.
            (I’d drop the condescending tone especially when you are wrong and don’t know what you are talking about. I just makes people laugh at you all the harder)

          • Think

            OK, prove your point. Don’t just make false and empty claims.

          • ddpalmer

            That’s rich. Really coming from Mr false and empty claims himself?

            Do you really know so little about the anti-whaling movement’s history?

          • Think

            @ddpalmer … just another refusal to substantiate your claims and an attempt to distract away from yourself.

            Why am I not surprised …?

            Is there even such a thing as an “anti-whaling movement”?

            I don’t think so. I’d say it’s just one manifestation of a much longer and boarder tide of pro-animal rights and animal welfare, and environmental protection or conservation movements.

            It strikes me you or your pay masters have a bit of a persecution myth if you think it is all about you. But I forget, why are you doing this again? What is in it for you?

          • kallanbhai

            ddpalmer I am sure if you would have spent equivalent time on internet to study about anti-whaling and the current adopted path of Sea Shepherd then you would have entered into a factual discussion with @Think.

            Your discussion has neither an objective nor any facts to be discussed. BTW the success of Operation Zero helped to save lives of 900+ whales. This is a victory of those who are hell bent to protect creatures against human oppressions. Again this is a win and is fact.

          • ddpalmer

            I have spent plenty of time studying the anti-whaling movement. That is why I know most of them are hypocrites.

            If you spent equivalent time on internet to study anti-whaling you would know it was Operation Zero Tolerance and that claiming it saved 900+ whales is disingenuous. What it was at best was a stalemate.

          • Truth

            I agree with the view that you are fuelled by hate against these people, for whatever reason, and have no genuine interest or love of Japan. In a sense, you are projection some kind of internal conflict within America, or wherever you come from, onto a Japanese issue.

            What are the accurate figures for the hunt this year? How much shorter was their hunting period due to the boats being repaired and how many whales were killed after Sea Shepherd left?

            I’d like to know accurately how effective or ineffective Sea Shepherd were not just read your constant arguing and insults.

            For example, if the hunting period was only 50%, then we can expect a 50% decrease. If you wanted to be more accurate, if more whales were generally caught in the early part of the season, that might decrease expectation even more.

            The whole thing, from both sides, appears to be a huge waste of resources. It is a shame that both sides could not have agreed to set aside their fighting for one year and spend the money on rebuilding the North of Japan instead.

      • kallanbhai

        This is a political and commercial related activity so they will keep on justifying. SS is not the only team against whaling but we need both kind of forces like any country inorder to enter in a dialogue need to have military muscles before they can be heard. You can deny but it is a fact.

        • ddpalmer

          So what you are claiming is to be heard ANY movement needs to have ‘military muscle’ before they will be heard? Then how did women get the vote? How did marijuana get legalized in many states? I could give many more examples to prove your claim wrong. You can deny it but it is a fact.

          • Think

            Grow up ddpalmer. Kallanbhai is talking about nations and that is certainly true in their case.

            How did women get the vote? Well, it involved direct “criminal” actions, a whole load of women being jailed and a few suicides. I tend to think that proves the environmentalist’s case as well?

            Anti-slavery and human rights for negros … apparently it took a civil war in American to fix that one which makes kallanbhai look even more right.

            Indian Independence? Even Gandhi benefit from the outright terrorism that was going on against the British making the nation uneconomically ungovernable, and I could offer you dozens of other examples.

            Personally, I rather like the famous Stalin quote from Potsdam when confronted with his persecution of Catholics, “The Pope … how many divisions has he got?”

            We are talking about a fight against exactly the same repressive forces. When the repressive and exploitive forces lack honest and reason, they only respect power. What SSCS is … albeit poorly management in my opinion … is a show of power of the rising environmental and animal rights movement.

            Yes, we are rising and will be coming after you from all angles.

          • ddpalmer

            Yeah and all those countries that abolished slavery without a civil war I guess make kallanbhai look even more wrong. Or is the US the only country that matters?

            And most of those ‘criminal’ actions by a whole load of women weren’t in any way similar to the SSCS actions. Plus it is another case of only looking at the US Federal case. Many states and other countries had already given women the vote with no such impetuous.

            And I could offer you dozens of counter examples.

            So him claiming it is a requirement for change is pure BS.

            Oh, so it is your opinion. Well that makes it perfectly true and the only thing that is right. Just how did you get that huge ego that leads you to believe your opinions are always right and are universal?

          • Think

            No, I would say it was a mixture of common sense and a good historical education.

            So tell us how many nations or states had given women the vote prior to the Suffragette movement … and how many toppled like dominoes after that first big confrontation was won?

            I am sorry, you’re scoring own goals left, right and center here and you’re actually underlining the significance of the “Whale War”. It’s a symbolic battle much bigger than actual immediate value.

            If the forces of wilful abuse, exploitation and environmental destruction can be challenged directly and defeated, or even significantly bloodied, then it will important victory for the movements involved and proof of their abilities to organize themselves into something focused and effective.

            I’d say we are past the latter stage already. Even if the dolphin and whale slaughterers are to continue until they retire they know what world thinks of them and that their day is over. The best they can hope for is a nice, quiet retirement like the Nazis who fled for South America.

            They’re not the one history will treat kindly.

  • Nudge

    My biggest objection is that those who live in the Northern Hemisphere – having mucked up their own area – are now coming to the Southern Hemisphere and doing the same here

    And in the case of Whaling – its supposed to be cultural

    Well – kill all the whales you want in you neck of the woods (like the Northern Hemisphere) – but keep the heck out of ours – personally I would like to see these characters get a Type 48 up the bow