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    http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...section=justin

    The Sea Shepherd conservation group's ship the Steve Irwin has left Hobart with the goal of protecting bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean Sea.

    The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) is meeting in Qatar this week and will vote on whether to list the bluefin tuna as endangered and restrict catches.

    The Steve Irwin has refueled and resupplied after what its crew calls its most successful campaign to date against Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean.

    Captain Paul Watson says with the whaling season over it is time for the next campaign.

    "Our plans for the tuna campaign is to go to the Mediterranean, because the blue fin tuna is now going to be put on the endangered species list with CITES," he said.

    "Our objective is just to directly intervene their fishing operations. So if we catch anybody illegally fishing tuna, we'll cut their nets and release their tuna."

    The Sea Shepherd ship the Bob Barker will leave Hobart at the end of the month.
    What do the mariners and fishermen here think if this action?
    How will they know if the nets from "illegal" tuna fishers? Oh and they plan to mostly go after Tuna Fishers from Malta since the small island nation can do little to stop them without a proper navy
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    I do believe some fish populations around the world are being threatened. But He is going about it in the absolute worst way. To go after fisherman that have been doing their thing for generations. is appaling. As a life long mariner It enrages me that he is even allowed near the water. It has been debated over and over again on here of what bad seamanship he displays, so no need to beat a moronic pirate anymore. I believe he needs to be stopped - and I think he might just meet his demise from a seriously pissed of fisherman and i dont think his toy badge is going to stop a real bullet.
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    Default Re: SSCS to attack tuna fishers, Cut nets

    People will be killed, (people from the SSCS).
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    There is a point to be made regarding these blue fin catches. It has been out of hand for a while. It will not last.

    I get my own......no by-catch....unless it's me.

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    Gallup released a poll today showing environmental issues at a 20-year low for people's interest. It makes sense, if people don't have a job, worrying about tropical rain forest probably seems much less important.
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    Default Re: SSCS to attack tuna fishers, Cut nets

    I agree with Jeffrox. The fishermen in the med won't put up with the BS and they are not passive like the Japanese. Wasn't it the the SS that sunk a french vessel some years ago. It might be time for pay backs.
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    Default Re: SSCS to attack tuna fishers, Cut nets

    I haven't heard of them sinking a French vessel but I think they sunk some Spanish ones i port claiming they were "pirate whalers"
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    Quote Originally Posted by skipjackmac View Post
    Wasn't it the the SS that sunk a french vessel some years ago. It might be time for pay backs.
    It was the French who sunk a Greenpeace ship and killed one of the crew.

    Is that the kind of "payback" that turns you on?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steamer View Post
    It was the French who sunk a Greenpeace ship and killed one of the crew.

    Is that the kind of "payback" that turns you on?
    It's more along the line of a guy getting blown up on a bomb disposal unit. Nobody wishes for something like that to happen, but it can and will. Just a matter of time.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steamer View Post
    It was the French who sunk a Greenpeace ship and killed one of the crew.

    Is that the kind of "payback" that turns you on?
    You talking about the 1985 singing of the Rainbow Warrior? The person who was killed was Fernando Pereira, who wasn't a crew member of the Greenpeace ship, but was instead a freelance journalist who reborded the vessel after the inital blast (and evacuation) and died when the subsequent explosion occurred.

    I can assure you that if some nutjob rammed my vessel with intent to sink it and board me for some imagined fishing violation... lets just say there would be some serious problems for the idiots doing the ramming.
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    Ditto with the above. Its not a matter of if, but when someone dies.
    The problem is - it will be some eighteen year old kid who is there purely out of ignorance - not the idiot running the show.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jon View Post
    The person who was killed was Fernando Pereira, who wasn't a crew member of the Greenpeace ship, but was instead a freelance journalist who reborded the vessel after the inital blast (and evacuation) and died when the subsequent explosion occurred.
    Oh, so then killing him was OK since he wasn't technically "crew?"

    And since it was not what you define as a "nutjob" who planted the sequenced bombs timed to achieve the greatest damage and terror exactly like the more recent jihadis, you find this admirable if not just acceptable?

    Look in a mirror and you will see a nutjob and a jihadi terrorist. What is the difference between your published sentiments here and the claims made by every other whackjob terrorist who claims some version of moral superiority?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steamer View Post
    Oh, so then killing him was OK since he wasn't technically "crew?"

    And since it was not what you define as a "nutjob" who planted the sequenced bombs timed to achieve the greatest damage and terror exactly like the more recent jihadis, you find this admirable if not just acceptable?

    Look in a mirror and you will see a nutjob and a jihadi terrorist. What is the difference between your published sentiments here and the claims made by every other whackjob terrorist who claims some version of moral superiority?
    No dumbass, it wasn't okay just because he wasn't technically crew. You made a comment that it was a member of the crew who died, it wasn't, I said so, end of story.

    The French intelligence services planted the two bombs on the Rainbow Warrior. In my opinion, what they did was no better than what some select middle eastern nations do: it's called State Sponsored Terrorism. (Look! Dumbass! We agree on something!)

    Where the hell do you get off comparing me to a whackjob terrorist or telling me that if I look in a mirror I'll see a nutjob jihadi terrorist?

    I do stand by my earlier statement: "I can assure you that if some nutjob rammed my vessel with intent to sink it and board me for some imagined fishing violation... lets just say there would be some serious problems for the idiots doing the ramming."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jon View Post
    Where the hell do you get off comparing me to a whackjob terrorist or telling me that if I look in a mirror I'll see a nutjob jihadi terrorist?
    You means the collective dopplegangers who have been flooding this site with the kind of mindless hatred and blustering threats that is only matched by the Sea Shepherds blind hatred of the whalers.
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    Steamer - I havent seen any threats on this thread or others for that matter. I think you are mis-reading what is being typed. We are just stating that sea shepard might someday piss off the wrong guy. and were not saying that guy is us. Im just saying...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steamer View Post
    You means the collective dopplegangers who have been flooding this site with the kind of mindless hatred and blustering threats that is only matched by the Sea Shepherds blind hatred of the whalers.
    Go back to drinking your Kool-Aid there pal. I wasn't supportive of the Frenchie action in 1985, I haven't threatened anyone, and you're way off base.
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    Question about Tuna Fishing. DO the tuna fishermen stay with their nets? Or do they leave them unattended? because I suspect that if the nets are left unattended they intend on cutting the nets loose and sinking them to he bottom f of the ocean liek they did with a net they found in the Southern Ocean this year.
    Unless the ships tow their nets are stay close byy think the SS ship will stay away from them.
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    you suspect; you think... but you don't know.

    You're still a troll...
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    ANyoen see the news? They attacked and injured 2 fishermen and returned again in two days to attack again
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    Before the show started, I thought it would be awesome. But on the first episode the guy in charge went on about how he refused to hire qualified mariners and would only take idealist volunteers. In an introduction to the "Chief Engineer" he admitted that he had no mechanical knowledge and had never even changed his own tire. It amazes me that they even manage to get out of port.
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