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Excerpt from an article in UK Independent today....
"Some campaigners are now calling for the anti-whaling countries - the so-called "like-minded" group, led by Australia, New Zealand, the US and Britain - to take legal action against Japan over the "scientific" whaling issue.
"Scientific whaling needs to be stopped, and legal action needs to be taken against Japan in the International Court," said Joth Singh, director of wildlife and habitats for the International Fund for Animal Welfare.
"We believe there is, in fact, an opportunity to do that, and we have contracted a lawyer in Australia who has done an evalutation of the possibilities of legal action. We think the like-minded countries should look at them.
"They need to take this issue to the International Court, because international pressure is required. Trade sanctions should certainly be a possibility." Mr Singh added: "I have been attending IWC meetings for years, and a number of resolutions which have been passed aimed at stopping scientific whaling have had no effect whatsoever. Diplomatic demarches, notes to Japan, have had no effect either."
Perhaps a violation of the treaty by refueling in a protected area would be more good ammunition against Japan.
KEEP SAFE!

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the campaign in french for you Greenpaece, ty ,

Are you guys refueling to? or is this only for the Japs?

It just shows their complete disregard for the environment, and for international treaty.

Many thanks for your excellent work!

DEAR ALL.
ITS V. INTERSTING TO SEE THIS IN PICTURES
REGARDS
DAMIAN

I hope that the Japanese get into trouble for that action... Cause I'm sure they didn't file their paperwork... Basically I think that they are saying 'Stick it you international community'... They just don't care! The international community needs to show that they care and are serious!

Keep up the great work!

Thought you might be interested in this ... taken from the ENS website. Shows your efforts over the years have paid off .... well done!

Undersea Recorders Locate Large Whales in Unexpected Places
SEATTLE, Washington, January 2, 2006 (ENS) - Blue whales off the Pacific Northwest coast sound different than blue whales that live in the western Pacific Ocean, and those sound different from blue whales off Antarctica. And they all sound different than the blue whales off Chile, according to scientists listening to whale sounds recorded by undersea microphones moored to the ocean floor.

The blue whale is the largest mammal ever to inhabit the Earth. Blue whales can weigh over 100 tons and measure more than 100 feet in length. (Photo courtesy IWC)

The researchers - from NOAA's Alaska Fisheries Center in Seattle, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center - are studying whale sounds in the northeast Pacific Ocean and in the Gulf of Alaska, the Bering and Beaufort seas.

They have found whale species in unexpected places, such as critically endangered North Pacific right whales in the Gulf of Alaska, where they were formerly abundant but have not been seen in decades.

"There has been only one confirmed sighting of a right whale in the Gulf of Alaska since 1980, so discovering them is not only surprising, it is fairly significant," said David Mellinger, an assistant professor at Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport. "We picked up the sounds of one whale off Kodiak Island, and several others in deep water, which is also something of a surprise, since most right whale sightings have been near-shore."

The autonomous data-recording devices, equipped with underwater microphones called hydrophones, have been used to track many whale species - blue, fin, humpback, North Pacific right, bowhead, and sperm whales - an article in the January 2006 issue of the journal "BioScience" reports.

Oceanographer Dr. Sue Moore (Photo courtesy Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S.) The principal author, oceanographer Dr. Sue Moore, who is director of NOAA's Alaska Fisheries Center in Seattle and a member of the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission, is currently on a two year posting to the University of Washington's Applied Physics Lab, working with ocean acoustics scientists to advance understanding of acoustic effects and climate change on marine mammals.

In the "BioScience" article, Moore and her colleagues describe how they tracked the seasonal occurrence of large whales by detecting their calls on the hydrophones deployed in the Gulf of Alaska, the Bering Sea and the Beaufort Sea.

She describes the use of two types of undersea recorders, one developed by NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory and the other by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where Moore completed her doctorate with a dissertation on whale habitats in the Alaskan Arctic.

The recorders are attached to hydrophones that are held at different distances from the ocean floor and are equipped with disk drives able to store tens of gigabytes of data, she writes. This allows them to operate for months before they are recovered and the data accessed.
The sound patterns picked up by the hydrophones have yielded much new information and raised many questions as well.

"The whales in the eastern Pacific have a very low-pitched pulsed sound, followed by a tone," Mellinger explained. "Other populations use different combinations of pulses, tones and pitches. The difference is really striking, but we don't know if it is tied to genetics, or some other reason."

"There are also some hybrid sounds that are rare," he said. "We don't know if they are part of a common language that different populations of whales use to communicate with each other, or if they come from a confused juvenile who hasn't completely learned the complexities of communicating."

Researchers deploy an acoustic recording package that will pick up whale sounds for more than one year at a time without servicing. ((Photo courtesy Marine Physical Laboratory) )
Scientists began hearing whale sounds several years ago on a U.S. Navy hydrophone network. The hydrophone system – called the Sound Surveillance System, was used by the Navy during the Cold War to monitor submarine activity in the northern Pacific Ocean. As the Cold War wound down, these and other military assets were offered to civilian researchers conducting environmental studies.

Another Oregon State researcher, Christopher Fox, first received permission from the Navy to use the hydrophones at his laboratory at the Hatfield Marine Science Center to listen for undersea earthquakes. While listening for earthquakes, the researchers begin picking up sounds of ships, marine landslides, and whales.
An engineer at the Hatfield center, Haru Matsumoto, then developed an autonomous hydrophone that can be deployed independently of a ship or other structure.

Matsumoto says the titanium case containing the data recorder can withstand pressure to at least 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) below sea level. These instruments are capable of recording frequencies from 1 - 20,000 Hz, and depending on the sampling rate, can record data for over a year before servicing is required.

Also collaborating on the whale acoustics study is Professor John Hildebrand with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography who heads the Marine Physical Laboratory (MPL), a research unit of the University of California, San Diego. The lab used the hydrophone as the basis for acoustic recording packages that are used for multi-year studies of whales.

The researchers placed seven of these packages in the Gulf of Alaska about five years ago.

How will Greenpeace get more fuel? You have been following the whalers for miles and miles and now they are fully fueled. And the Greenpeace ships must save enough fuel to get to land. I hope that a fueling ship is coming your way.

Information for public dissemination and possible boycotts:

Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd.
Nippon Bldg, 6-2 Otemachi 2-Chome, Chiyoda-Ku
Tokyo 100-8686, Japan
+81-3-3244-7000
Fax: +81-3-3244-7426
President and CEO: Naoya Kakizoe
http://www.nissui.co.jp

Executive Senior Managing Director, Finance and Accounting Department, IT Promotion Office, and Logistics Department : Yasuhisa Sato

Managing Director and Ethics Officer, General Affairs and Human Resources Departments, Public Relations, Corporate Strategic Planning Office, and Customer Services Center : Hiroshi Shibuya

They are listed on the Japanese Nikkei Stock Exchange, and securities laws require them to disclose company information, such as holdings, profits, etc. Normally one can get prospectus from any broker which covers much information.

They wholly own several companies in the US, among them:

Nippon Suisan USA

15400 NE 90th St., Ste. 100
Redmond, WA 98052

President and CEO: Kunihiko Koike

425-869-1703

Fax: 425-869-1615

Fishking Processors, Inc.

1320 Newton St.
Los Angeles, CA 90021

Phone: 213-746-1307
Fax: 213-746-4008

http://www.mrsfridays.com/

Chairman: Kunihiko Koike

President and CEO: Russel S. Mentzer

Fishking Processors makes specialty seafood products for the retail grocery and foodservice industries. Its Mrs.. Friday's brand of frozen fish products include smoked salmon, breaded fish and shrimp, surimi, crab cakes, and premium fish steaks. The company has operations in Alabama, California, and Washington. Its sister company in Brunswick, Georgia makes the King & Prince brand of frozen seafoods. It is wholly owned by Nippon Suisan Kaisha, and private - not publicly traded.

UniSea, Inc.

15400 NE 90th St.
Redmond, WA 98073-9719

Phone: 425-881-8181
Fax: 425-861-5249

http://www.unisea.com

UniSea sticks mainly to one body of water when it trolls for fishies. Unisea, Inc., produces seafood products from its Alaskan fisheries, including cod, halibut, pollock, snow and king crab, and surimi, all of which it markets worldwide. Two automated seafood plants, which sit in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, produce numerous whitefish products and fish meal. Another processing facility is in Redmond, Washington.

UniSea also operates The Grand Aleutian Hotel and the UniSea Inn. UniSea is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Japan-based seafood giant Nippon Suisan Kaisha.

Gorton's

128 Rogers St.
Gloucester, MA 01930

Phone: 978-283-3000
Fax: 978-281-8295
Toll Free: 800-222-6826

http://www.gortons.com

As a leader in the US frozen branded seafood sector, Gorton's has lots of fish to fry. And freeze. And sell to food retailers and foodservice suppliers across the country. The company's products include breaded, frozen popcorn fish and shrimp, fish sticks and fillets, and fish tenders (for dipping). Other Gorton products include ready-to-heat shrimp bowls and frozen grilled salmon. The company also sells fresh seafood on its Web site. Its Blue Water Seafoods unit is one of Canada's leading brands. Gorton's was acquired by Japanese seafood giant, Nippon Suisan Kaisha, in 2001; it is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of that company's US-based operations, Nippon Suisan (USA).

Nippon Suisan Kaisha recently bought a 50% stake in Sealord, New Zealand's largest marine products company.

Nippon Suisan Kaisha also has operations in Argentina, Chile, China, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Russia, Singapore, and Vietnam.

The company is the second-largest marine products firm in Japan. Its fishing operations account for more than 45% of its sales. Nippon Suisan Kaisha also processes frozen foods and distributes them.

Other business segments include production of pharmaceuticals (subsidiary of same name in Japan), oils, and cold storage services.

This corporation can be influenced by consumers!

Please make this information available to any group interested in acting to prevent Japanese whaling.

I am also sending it to any I identify, and have written 2 emails to Gorton's, one of which received a response denying whaling. However, I asked in return if they were owned by Nissui or any group or corp. involved in whaling. They have yet to respond.

Whose waters were they in within the Antarctic territory. Hope its not Australia, because they are too concerned about their precious trade with Japan to actually take decisive action against the whaling.

I have read that hunter ships have scattered for days, looking for whales to kill. I wonder how long they can keep their unfortunate victims lashed to the sides before they must return them to the factory ship for 'processing' (and of course, that all important "scientific" measuring!)The ice-cold water must keep the whales well "preserved." I wish there were sufficient recources to block all the harpoon-laden ships from executing their dirty deeds! The video of a stricken Minke whale has haunted me for days. Thwart the killing!! We need to put pressure on Japan SOMEHOW! Thinking of the valliant crews of the Esperanza and the other ship, keep up the brave work, Eric White, Sacramento CA

A little web research indicates that Sealord, based in Grimsby, are half owned by Nissui. Sealord supply fish and seafood products to Waitrose and Sainsbury's. Perhaps it is worth considering boycotting Waitrose and Sainsbury's Sealord products while Nissui continues this appalling slaughter... Spread the word!

Refs: http://www.nzsociety.co.uk/MARKET6.html
http://www.nissui.co.jp/english/overseas.html

to those that are working their hearts out !! CONGRATS ! keep them on the run !!

if i had the chance ,i would like to be there as well ,but i have cancers , and i was with bad DNA as of DES was given to my mother while i was being carried !! but the sights of the japs doing horrid wrongfull acts ,, that is far worse !!

if i could ,, i am of an attitude ,and meanness ,, that i would be dropping fishing nets on thier ships , via that hilo !!! that would make a mess out of thier days for sure ,,,

hey ,, keep up the fight !!

and as people asked in eariler posts about your refuleing, i would have to think , that as the japs made close to port , to transfer a sick man to the shore , that you as well followed and neared the ports , that would be when you would have taken on fuel ,, and as well i would presume that you have stock of fuel on board !! hey ,,,, the Ezpa,,, is the one as i take it keeping up the fight ( and doing well,) there is the Artic Sunrize as well,,,, they i would bet ,would be reserving fuel , and if the Ezpa , runs low ,, the other ship would be able to get it to a port to take on fuel , not in the zone !!

as well others help too ,,,,

one Question ,??? there was news of another ship that is in the area ,,, the person as in reports , is to have founded Greenpeace , what is their activities in the area ???

KEEP THE FIGHT GOING ! DO NOT LET THE JAPS WIN !

Just mailed Sealord to tell them I will not be puchasing anymore of their products for my caffe..see if I get response. need more business & consumers to do same

Regards Red