Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:40:02 +0100 (Reuters) - The crew of Japanese whaling vessel Yushin Maru No. 2 spray water on a boat from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in the Southern Ocean, about 300 miles (483 km) north of Mawson Peninsula off the George V Land coast of Antarctica January 18, 2012. REUTERS/Sea Shepherd Conservation Society/Handout (ANTARCTICA - Tags: MARITIME CIVIL UNREST ENVIRONMENT) THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS
An anti-whaling sign is draped over a large inflatable whale ...
Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:20:13 +0200 (AFP/File) - An anti-whaling sign is draped over a large inflatable whale during a rally in 2006. Campaigns to harass Japan's whaling fleet only harden domestic opinion against environmentalists, a Japanese observer says at global whaling talks in the British Channel Islands.(AFP/File/Greg Wood)
Japan has sent a whaling fleet to the N.W. Pacific for what ...
Sat, 11 Jun 2011 08:40:11 +0200 (AFP/File) - Japan has sent a whaling fleet to the N.W. Pacific for what it called a research hunt, four months after cutting short a similar mission in the Antarctic due to obstruction by activists. The three-vessel fleet, led by the Nisshin Maru (pictured), reportedly plans to catch 260 whales including 100 minkes until late August to study their stomach contents, DNA and other information.(AFP/File/Kazuhiro Nogi)
File photo shows a Japanese whaling ship in the Southern Ocean ...
Sun, 06 Mar 2011 06:40:12 +0100 (AFP/Sea Shepherd/File) - File photo shows a Japanese whaling ship in the Southern Ocean off Antarctica. The head of environmentalist group Sea Shepherd said Sunday he was "75 percent sure" Japan would not start another whale hunt, as the activists' vessels docked triumphantly in Australia.(AFP/Sea Shepherd/File/Michael Williams)
File photo of the Yushin Maru whaling ship harpooning a whale ...
Sun, 06 Mar 2011 06:40:02 +0100 (AFP/Greenpeace/File) - File photo of the Yushin Maru whaling ship harpooning a whale in the Southern Ocean off Antarctica. Tokyo last month told Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands to take action against the US-based Sea Shepherd when it called its whaling fleet home early after killing 172 whales this season, about a fifth of its target.(AFP/Greenpeace/File/Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert)
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