Sea Shepherd Returns to the Slaughter - Round Two of the 2005 Seal Wars.

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Farley Mowat Arrives on the Seal Killing Grounds –

Seal Slaughter Has Been Postponed

 

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Crew on bow look out at 3 sealing ships on the horizon

 

Report from the Farley Mowat

By Captain Watson

 

2000 Hours ADT

 

Position: 51 Degrees 15 Minutes North

45 Degrees 37 Minutes West

50 Miles due East of St. Anthony,

Newfoundland

 

The Sea Shepherd marine wildlife conservation ship

Farley Mowat arrived in the seal killing area at 2000

Hours local time on April 11th, 2005.

 

Three sealing vessels were on the edge of the floes

when the Farley Mowat approached. They were the

Labrador Sea, the Labrador Challenger II, and the

Beccalina Mist, all out of Labrador. Apparently, many

of the vessels have gone into the port of St. Anthony

as a severe gale is expected this evening.

 

As a result of this gale, the seal slaughter has been

postponed and will not open tomorrow morning.

 

The crew of the Farley Mowat will ride out the storm

at sea and will be standing by to await word on the

opening of the obscenity that the Canadian government

describes as a seal hunt.

 

The Canadian Coast Guard vessel Henry Larsen has

closed in enough so that we could identify her. The

ship had been following us since yesterday so the

Farley Mowat now has her own personal escort. In a

radio exchange, the Henry Larsen informed the sealers

that they were in the area to monitor the Farley

Mowat.

 

The sealers attempted to intimidate the crew of the

Farley Mowat by exchanging comments like, " If we can't

kill seals tomorrow we may gets to kill some

c**ks**king tree huggers. "

 

" It was the kind of ignorant statement we have come to

expect from these seal baby-killing barbarians, " said

Captain Paul Watson, " so we are not surprised. "

 

The winds are increasing and the crew of the Farley

Mowat are hoping that a severe blow will wreak havoc

on the plans of the seal killers just as it did in the

Gulf of St. Lawrence during the last week of March.

 

The final figures from the Gulf of St. Lawrence seal

massacre report that the sealers slew 34,000 seals or

56,000 under their allotted quota of 90,000. The

56,000 figure has been added to the Newfoundland Front

quota for a total allowable kill of 285,000 baby

seals.

 

Severe weather prevented the full take in the Gulf and

the severe weather may yet prove to be a salvation for

the seals on the Front.

 

Last year, the killers exceeded their kill quota and

slaughtered 365,971 seals in total.

 

The Farley Mowat is now stopped for the night in the

ice awaiting the winds and monitoring the situation in

anticipation of the government announcement that will

open the carnage on the ice.

 

 

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