Converted from a pelagic trawl boat, the factory ship first led a whaling expedition that lasted from 1991 to 1992. It was called a “moving processing factory” because the whales caught by ...
In this image provided by the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service, an adult and sub-adult Fin whale are dragged aboard the Nisshin Maru, a Japanese whaling vessel, Feb. 6, 2008.
Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson has been released from prison in Greenland where he spent five months in custody, after Denmark rejected a Japanese request to extradite him. Mr Watson, 74, was ...
Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson has been freed after five months in a Greenland jail. Japan says he attacked one of its whaling ships in 2010, Watson called the charges "a total fabrication." ...