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Thu Mar 13, 2014, 03:32 AM Mar 2014

Southern Ocean Whales Are Safe for Now - Whaling is Over for 2014

http://www.seashepherd.org.au/news-and-media/2014/03/13/southern-ocean-whales-are-safe-for-now-whaling-is-over-for-2014-1587

Sea Shepherd is proud to announce that the Japanese whaling fleet has left the waters of the Antarctic Treaty Zone (ATZ), ending whale poaching in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary for this year.
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This is the latest that the Sea Shepherd Fleet has remained in the Southern Ocean to intervene against the illegal operations of the whalers.

Captain Peter Hammarstedt of The Bob Barker said, “The late departure of the whaling fleet is a testament to the fact that they have been delivered a disastrous season by the hand of Sea Shepherd, willing to push into the second week of March despite deteriorating weather conditions rather than face our fleet. Before we started this campaign, we made a promise to our clients, the whales, and to all of our supporters around the world to drive these poachers out of the whales’ waters. We have kept that promise. We are relentless.
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