The derelict Japanese fishing boat Rykoun Maru will be sent to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean north of Haida Gwaii, B.C., this morning by a U.S. Coast Guard gunnery crew.
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Antiwhaling activists claimed Tuesday that they have effectively ended this year’s Japanese hunt following a late-night altercation near Antarctica, but the whalers said their season will continue.
The activists said they finally found the main factory ship after playing cat-and-mouse with the whalers for the past two weeks. The Sea Shepherd ship Bob Barker confronted the whaling ship Nisshin Maru at midnight Monday about 97 km from the Antarctic coastline.
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Activists of antiwhaling group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society on Sunday obstructed Japan’s so-called research whaling in the Antarctic Ocean, hurling a rope at a whaling ship and twisting it around the ship’s propeller, the Japanese Fisheries Agency said.
The activists also threw bottles containing butyric acid and hurled smoke candles at the Yushin Maru No. 2 during the incident which started at 7:20 a.m. and lasted for about two hours, the agency said.
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