Sea Shepherd Catches Japanese Poaching Fleet with Dead Whale in Australian Sanctuary
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 15, 2017 Sea Shepherd Catches Japanese Poaching Fleet with Dead Whale in Australian Sanctuary After five weeks of patrolling the Southern Ocean, Sea Shepherd has located the Japanese whale poachers’ factory whaling vessel in the Australian Whale Sanctuary with a dead minke whale on its flensing deck, the first to be documented since the International Court of Justice ruled against their whaling operations in the Antarctic in 2014. The Nisshin Maru was spotted by the helicopter of Sea Shepherd’s MY Steve Irwin at 12:34AM GMT (11:34AM AEDT) at a