Iceland whale watching boat blocks whalers
Whale watching brings in far more money than whaling. Not surprisingly, a lot of Icelanders have begun to question why their government keeps giving permits to kill 40 or so whales each year - when it's obviously going to hurt their tourism industry. There's also been incidents of whalers hunting in designated whale watching areas.
Lately, the crew of one whale watching boat has been foiling the hunters. From the Iceland Review:
The crew of whale watching boat Elding 2 disturbed the crew of whale hunting boat Njördur KO7 while they were hunting for minkes yesterday morning. This is the second time that the whale watchers have prevented hunters from whaling.According to ruv.is, the crew of Elding 2 follows whale hunting boats and position their boat in such a way that the whale hunters cannot possibly complete their work. The whale watchers have not caused any danger, though.
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Comments
Hmm, looks like the crew of the Elding 2 are doing a bit of non-violent direct action!
Posted by: Dave Walsh | July 11, 2008 7:47 AM
The crew of Njødur KO7.
I am sad to see you are troubled by the whale watshing boat.
Don't let the terorism of the crew of Elding 2 stop your whaling. Good luck!!!
Petter.
Posted by: Peter Kjølleberg | July 11, 2008 4:25 PM
So cool! :-)
Posted by: Lisa | July 12, 2008 8:03 AM
and lets rock them hard!!
Posted by: veronica | July 12, 2008 10:46 AM
Nice. Elding 2 are hero's in my book. Why would people, for reasons other than greed, want to kill these amazing creatures?
Posted by: charlie | January 22, 2009 2:53 AM