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Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd founder and anti-whaling activist arrested in Greenland | the co-founder of Greenpeace and alleged ecoterrorist was traveling to intercept Japanese whaling ship Kongei Maru (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago

I'm sure Paul is far from a perfect man but frankly I'm on the side of the whales so critical support.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 2 points 4 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

In a statement, Greenland police said Watson, who founded Sea Shepherd and was a co-founder of Greenpeace, had been arrested after arriving in Nuuk on the ship John Paul DeJoria.

His organisation, the Captain Paul Watson Foundation (CPWF), said in a statement the arrest took place during a stop-off on a mission to intercept Japan’s newly built factory whaling ship Kangei Maru in the North Pacific.

CPWF said it believed his arrest was related to a so-called red notice issued over “Watson’s previous anti-whaling interventions in the Antarctic region”.

The 9,300-tonne whaler, Kangei Maru, which set off from Japan in May, butchers and processes whales caught by smaller vessels.

It is equipped with a slipway that can haul 70-ton fin whales, can store up to 600 tons of meat at a time, enabling it to remain at sea for long periods.

“We left the IWC [International Whaling Commission] and so at this point in time it is not under consideration,” said spokesperson Konomu Kubo.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 months ago

South Park ep Whale Whores S13E11