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URGENT: Harpoon Thrown At Whale, Protestor Injured

April 20, 2000

 

NEAH BAY - Makah Tribal whalers have thrown a

harpoon at one

of the gray

whales

migrating off the

Northwest coast

of Washington,

but it's not clear

if the whale was

actually hit.

 

What is clear is that an anti-whaling protestor on a

JetSki-type craft was struck by a Coast Guard

boat when the protestor got too close to the

hunters.

 

The Coast Guard is maintaining a 500-yard

exclusion zone around the hunters who are

protected by federal law. When the protestor

zipped in just off the hunters' canoe, the Coast

Guard boat ran over the small craft.

 

KOMO's Tracy Vedder in Air 4 reports the

protestor was taken on to the Coast Guard vessel

in a stretcher. The extent of injuries is unknown at

this time.

 

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