Anti-whalers set to resume hounding Japanese fleet
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A ship carrying militant anti-whaling activists was due to head back to Antarctic waters Thursday to resume harassing Japanese whalers, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society said.
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Japan has confirmed resuming whaling in Antarctic waters after environmental protesters stopped obstructing Japanese whalers there, press reports said Tuesday.
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Australia will deploy a ship fitted with machine guns to monitor Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean, a report said Tuesday.
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REYKJAVIK, Sep 14 (IPS) - Commercial whaling may start in Iceland again if  the owner of the Hvalur boats has his way.
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Environmental group Greenpeace's  anti-whaling ship Esperanza sailed into Sydney Harbour on  Friday to re-supply after protesting against Japanese whalers  in the Antarctic and heads on from there to Japan to pursue its  protest.
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The fire on Japan's ship Nisshin Maru may not have ended its Antarctic whaling operations for this season.
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Australia could act to end an Antarctic stand-off by collecting activists currently on board a Japanese whaler.
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Anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd, which  has clashed with Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean, will  end its protest on Wednesday as its ships are running low on  fuel.
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Environmental group Greenpeace's anti-whaling ship Esperanza sailed into Sydney Harbour on Friday to re-supply after protesting against Japanese whalers in the Antarctic and heads on from there to Japan to pursue its protest.
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Japan's efforts to have restrictions lifted on the trade in whalemeat are rebuffed at an international meeting.
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Japan has warned it des not rule out quitting the International Whaling Commission unless the divided group allows whaling within several years.
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An international animal welfare group vowed to pursue a lawsuit accusing Japanese whalers of killing hundreds of whales within an Australian sanctuary despite Canberra's own reluctance.
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Japan has pledged to keep whaling as its troubled fleet headed home early from Antarctic waters, while opponents exulted at the pullout and vowed to ramp up pressure against the hunt.
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Japan and like-minded pro-whaling nations took a step toward their goal of resuming commercial whaling on Tuesday at a special meeting of the International Whaling Commission.
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A Greenpeace vessel trying to disrupt Japan's annual whale hunt in waters near Antarctica has run low on fuel and is returning to port, the group said.
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Japan has resumed its annual whale hunt in waters near Antarctica now that anti-whaling activists have stopped pursuing the Japanese fleet, a news report said Tuesday.
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The militant environmental group Sea Shepherd said Monday that it had located the Japanese whaling fleet near Antarctica and threatened to ram them if they resumed slaughtering the giant sea creatures.