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Greenpeace claims it has driven out Japanese whalers
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 13 - 01 - 2008


Greenpeace claimed on Sunday that its protest
ship Esperanza had chased Japanese ships out of Antarctic waters
where they have been hunting nearly 1,000 whales, according to dpa.
It said the Esperanza, which found the Japanese fleet on Saturday
after 10 days of searching in the Southern Ocean, had driven the
whalers out after a high-speed chase over hundreds of miles through
fog and increasingly rough seas.
A Greenpeace statement said the Esperanza pursued the Japanese
factory ship Nisshin Maru over the 60 degrees latitude mark - the
boundary of the whale hunting grounds - followed by the catcher
vessel Yushin Maru.
"We came here to stop the fleet from whaling and we have done
that," Greenpeace Japan campaigner Sakyo Noda said from the
Esperanza.
But the Greenpeace statement said it was suspected that the fleet
was planning to refuel soon and offload whale meat that had already
been processed onto a Panamanian-registered tanker Oriental Bluebird.
The Japanese have announced that they are trying to kill 935 minke
whales and 50 endangered fin whales in this year's so-called
scientific research programme.
After international protests last month, they abandoned plans to
also catch 50 threatened humpback whales.
New Zealand and Australia have led an international campaign to
stop the Japanese programme, which they claim is a front for
commercial whaling.
"There are already around 4,000 tons of whale meat stockpiled in
Japan from previous expeditions - clearly showing there is no
appetite for it," Greenpeace said.
The president of the Japan Whaling Association, Keiichi Nakajima,
said in a statement from Tokyo that the research programme was
"perfectly legal" under an international convention for the
regulation of whaling and warned Greenpeace to stay away from its
vessels.
"Past activities of Greenpeace have been responsible for vessel
collisions that risk the lives and safety of our researchers and crew
and are illegal under international maritime law," he said.


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