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***NJMaverick*** · 02-16-2011, 12:46 PM

Quote:TOKYO (AP) -- Japan has temporarily suspended its annual Antarctic whaling after repeated harassment by a conservationist group, a government official said Wednesday.

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ships have been chasing the Japanese whaling fleet for weeks in the icy seas off Antarctica, trying to block Japan's annual whale hunt, planned for up to 945 whales.

Japan has halted the hunt since Feb. 10 after persistent "violent" disruptions by the anti-whaling protesters, said fisheries agency official Tatsuya Nakaoku.

So far, the attacks have not caused any injuries or major damage to the vessels, he said, but the protesters are throwing rancid butter in bottles and once the protesters got a rope entangled in the propeller on a harpoon vessel, causing it to slow down.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/16...23884.html

**Cha** · 02-16-2011, 02:41 PM

The protesters were harassing the whalers but not as bad as the whalers were harassing the whales!

Go Whales~

**Julie** · 02-16-2011, 07:08 PM

I'm glad the whales are winning, that's the team I've been pulling for all along!

Julie

**DFW** · (This post was last modified: 02-21-2011 02:22 AM by DFW.)

I always preferred hanging with whales over hanging with whalers anyway:

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