GPS - $25,000 Reward for Japanese Whalers' Coordinates

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$25,000 Reward for Japanese Whalers' Coordinates

whaleaction@yahoo.com

2007-01-29, 10:33 pm

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is offering a reward to any one
person or group that can provide the coordinates of the Japanese
Whaling Fleet presently operating in the Ross Sea.

"This information will save us considerably in fuel costs," said
Founder and President of Sea Shepherd Captain Paul Watson. "We know
the Japanese whaling fleet is within 500 miles of us. We are willing
to pay USD$25,000 for any information that successfully leads us to
the fleet."

If you know someone who works in maritime tracking, satellite imagery,
the Japanese fishing industry, cetacean research, who's doing an ocean
crossing in the Pacific or working in some other field that might have
first hand knowledge of where the fleet will be, pass this message
along.

The ship we are seeking is named the Nisshin Maru, gross tonnage
8,030, length 130 metres, radio call sign JJCJ. She is the factory
ship and will be accompanied by three catchers, Kyo Maru No. 1 with
radio call sign JKNG, the Yushin Maru call sign JLZS and Yushin Maru
No. 2, call sign JPPV.

Information can be relayed to our head office in Friday Harbor,
Washington, at 360-370-5650 or faxed to 360-370-5651or e-mailed to
rewards@seashepherd.org

If desired, informant's identity may remain confidential.

seashepherd.org/news/media_070127_1.html

Davoud

2007-01-31, 10:33 pm

whaleaction@yahoo.com:

> Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is offering a reward to any one
> person or group that can provide the coordinates of the Japanese
> Whaling Fleet presently operating in the Ross Sea

What do you plan to do if you locate this fleet?

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Dave Allison

2007-01-31, 10:33 pm

Maybe they can give us a hint?

Does it involve a harpoon?

:*)

Davoud wrote:
> whaleaction@yahoo.com:
>
>
> What do you plan to do if you locate this fleet?
>

whaleaction@yahoo.com

2007-01-31, 10:33 pm

On Jan 31, 5:38 pm, Davoud <s...@below.net> wrote:
> whaleact...@yahoo.com:
>
>
> What do you plan to do if you locate this fleet?
>
> --
> usenet *at* davidillig *dawt* com

Sea Shepherd plans to stop the illegal pirate whaling operations by
inflicting enough damage on the ship (above the waterline) to make it
return to port.

Charlie Hoffpauir

2007-01-31, 10:33 pm

On 31 Jan 2007 17:30:33 -0800, whaleaction@yahoo.com wrote:

>On Jan 31, 5:38 pm, Davoud <s...@below.net> wrote:
>
>Sea Shepherd plans to stop the illegal pirate whaling operations by
>inflicting enough damage on the ship (above the waterline) to make it
>return to port.

somehow, that seems a lot like piracy....

I don't think damaging a ship at sea is really legal... even "if" the
actions of that ship are "illegal".

Charlie Hoffpauir
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/

vk7gd

2007-02-01, 4:33 am

Charlie Hoffpauir wrote:
> On 31 Jan 2007 17:30:33 -0800, whaleaction@yahoo.com wrote:
>
>
> somehow, that seems a lot like piracy....
>
> I don't think damaging a ship at sea is really legal... even "if" the
> actions of that ship are "illegal".
>
> Charlie Hoffpauir
> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/

Illegalities don't stop idiots!!!! With any luck the Japs could beat them
to it and fire on them first...

Landau Plotken

2007-02-01, 4:33 am

<whaleaction@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1170293433.820160.129070@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com...
> On Jan 31, 5:38 pm, Davoud <s...@below.net> wrote:
>
> Sea Shepherd plans to stop the illegal pirate whaling operations by
> inflicting enough damage on the ship (above the waterline) to make it
> return to port.

Good luck. Critics and whalers die off in generation or so, but best to save
creatures before then. Inevitable, so sooner is better.

Can't help with Lat and Long, but I expect you already have the location
by now, and probably no $25K to pay (and not from some lame loud mouth
posting snide comments to this newsgroup)... Hope so.

LP - even Russian's agree!

Allnews

2007-02-01, 10:33 pm

I just know I'm going to regret this and as offensive as it sounds, please
remember, I'm just repeating a joke I saw on a bumper sticker. I'm not
racist or sexist or rude, but I can't get the damn line out of my head after
reading this thread, so here I go...

"SAVE A WHALE.....HARPOON A FAT CHICK."

There. I said it. Sorry, I laugh everytime I think of that bumper sticker.
Again, I disagree with off-colour jokes and apologize if it's offensive to
anyone reading this. Honest.

"Landau Plotken" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:45c1a0d0$0$6092
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>
> <whaleaction@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1170293433.820160.129070@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com...
>
> Good luck. Critics and whalers die off in generation or so, but best to
> save creatures before then. Inevitable, so sooner is better.
>
> Can't help with Lat and Long, but I expect you already have the location
> by now, and probably no $25K to pay (and not from some lame loud mouth
> posting snide comments to this newsgroup)... Hope so.
>
> LP - even Russian's agree!

mrorwell

2007-02-03, 10:33 am

"Allnews" <spamenot@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote in
news:4uuwh.1149$R71.15550@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca:

> I just know I'm going to regret this and as offensive as it sounds,
> please remember, I'm just repeating a joke I saw on a bumper sticker.
> I'm not racist or sexist or rude, but I can't get the damn line out of
> my head after reading this thread, so here I go...

Honest, I'm not a racist... some of my best friends are black.

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lscotte@gmail.com

2007-02-09, 10:33 pm

Here's what they did. Hopefully nobody assisted these terrorists:

TOKYO - Members of a marine mammal conservation group who attacked
Japanese whalers off Antarctica on Friday, injuring two of them, are
"terrorists," Japan's Fisheries Agency said.

Two activists from the Sea Shepherd protest ship went missing during
the confrontation with Japanese whaling craft Nisshin Maru early
Friday, but were rescued safely - with members of the Japanese whaling
expedition assisting in the rescue efforts in the icy waters of the
Ross Sea.

The protesters then resumed their pursuit of the Japanese vessel, and
dumped foul-smelling butyric acid onto the whaling ship's deck,
injuring two Japanese crewmembers, according to Takahide Naruko, the
chief of the Far Seas Fisheries Division of the Fisheries Agency.

The two crewmembers suffered facial injuries when the bottle of acid
smashed on deck, sending shards of glass in all directions, he said.
One was hit by an empty container of acid and the other had acid
squirted in his eye, he said.

The protesters then resumed their pursuit of the Japanese vessel, and
dumped foul-smelling butyric acid onto the whaling ship's deck,
injuring two Japanese crewmembers, the Fisheries Agency said in a
statement.

National broadcaster NHK said the protesters also threw a smoke bomb
and that the two crewmembers suffered facial injuries when the bottle
of acid smashed on desk, sending shards of glass in all directions.

Neither of the Japanese crewmen hurt in the incident suffered life-
threatening injuries, according to Hideki Moronuki, the assistant
director of the agency's whaling department, although he declined to
give details.

"They're terrorists," Moronuki said of the anti-whaling activists who
had been searching for the Japanese fleet for weeks. "They must stop
these dangerous acts immediately."

He said the Sea Shepherd attack was unforgivable especially given that
the Japanese helped find the missing protesters.

"We rescued them from a humanitarian point of view, but they attacked
the Japanese as soon as they were safe," Moronuki said, saying the
attack returned "good for evil."

Japan is considering what measures to take, including a possible
lawsuit against the group, he said.

The Nisshin Maru left Japan in November for a six-month whaling
expedition in the Antarctic as part of a scientific whaling program
conducted within the rules of the International Whaling Commission.

Tokyo maintains that whaling is a national tradition and a vital part
of its food culture, and is pushing for a limited resumption of hunts,
arguing that whale stocks have sufficiently recovered since 1986 when
a global moratorium on commercial whaling was introduced.

Sea Shepherd "successfully delivered" six liters of butyric acid to
the ship's flensing deck, where whales are cut up, halting the crew's
work, the group said on its Web site Friday.

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