Iceland to deport antiwhaling protest ship’s crew after they interfered with whale hunt
Authorities in Iceland detained the M/V Bandero, an antiwhaling protest ship, on July 30 and held the boat in port in Reykjavík with its 21-person crew detained on board, according to Manolya Adan, an environmental biologist who was among the crew. She spoke to Mongabay on Aug. 4 from the ship and communicated further via […]
Iceland authorities detained an anti-whaling protest ship, the M/V Bandero, and its 21-member crew on July 30, according to environmental biologist Manolya Adan. The ship, operated by the Captain Paul Watson Foundation, a global direct-action ocean conservation nonprofit, was allegedly interfering with Hvalur hf., Iceland's last whaling company.
The crew had been monitoring the whaling activities for over a month when the M/V Bandero entered Iceland's 12-nautical-mile national waters on that day. The vessel was pursued by the Coast Guard with armed forces, eventually being boarded in Iceland's exclusive economic zone. The whaling ship Hvalur 9 returned to port without hunting once the M/V Bandero approached.
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