Sea Shepherd Taking No Prisoners In Defending whales.

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Sea Shepherd Taking No Prisoners In Defending whales.

 

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Look up, whale warriors, the air attack is coming,

1-10-06

 

 

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Look up, whale warriors - the air attack is coming

January 10, 2006

 

JAPAN will consider scrambling police aircraft to the

Antarctic to

defend its whaling fleet and may ask Australia to act

against Greenpeace,

as anti-whaling protests intensify in the Southern

Ocean.

 

" If Greenpeace action becomes more aggressive, the

Fisheries Agency may

ask the Maritime Police Agency to dispatch aircraft, "

the deputy

director of the Far Seas Fisheries Division of Japan's

Fisheries Agency, Mr

Hideki Moronuki told the Herald yesterday. " Or the

agency may ask the

Government of Australia to take action to normalise

the situation. "

 

Japanese alarm is rising over the scale of protests

following an

attempt by the group Sea Shepherd to disable the

Japanese factory ship

Nisshin Maru after it collided with the Greenpeace

 

ship Arctic Sunrise on

Sunday.

 

Sea Shepherd activists in inflatable dinghies tried to

foul the

propellers of the Nisshin Maru with heavy ropes, the

group said yesterday.

Driving close under the bow of the Nisshin Maru, the

activists from the

Sea Shepherd vessel, Farley Mowat, unsuccessfully

tried to heave the

lines under the hull to entangle its propellers.

 

The action follows a pledge by Sea Shepherd's leader,

Paul Watson, to

attack the world's only remaining factory whaling

ship.

 

" This ship is the Death Star for the whales and we

intend to shut it

down, " Mr Watson said.

 

The existence of a contingency plan for Japan's

whaling fleet which

includes a possible request to Canberra for

protection, creates a

diplomatic minefield for Australia. Japan is

Australia's biggest trading

partner and a crucial regional ally.

 

Mr Moronuki said that the exact plans for guarding the

six-vessel

whaling fleet were top-secret. He said the Maritime

Police Agency did not

have personnel on the Nisshin Maru but a government

official was on board

as an observer and to report on its progress.

 

The length of the flight between an air base in Japan

and the Antarctic

raises the prospect that Australia would be needed for

a refuelling

stop, and may be asked to grant access to an air

corridor. However, it is

unclear just what action a flight by aircraft over the

warring fleets

could achieve.

 

Mr Moronuki said he was gathering more information

about the actions of

Greenpeace but the situation had not deteriorated to

the point where

police action or intervention by Australia was

required.

 

Japan, which says whaling is part of its heritage,

defends its annual

harvest in the Southern Ocean as legal research into

whales and their

habitat.

 

Opponents say it is a slaughter and a commercial

operation masquerading

as science, and object to the increase in Japan's

whale-killing quota

this year to 850 minke and 10 fin whales.

 

Japan has not yet made an official request for the

Australian

Government to intervene, but it may be difficult for

Japan to make a case

because it does not recognise Australia's sovereignty

over Antarctic waters.

 

A spokeswoman for the Federal Minister for the

Environment, Ian

Campbell, said: " Our main concern is that all parties

ensure the safety of

crews as their first priority. "

 

 

 

 

 

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