3/17/2023 0 Comments Whale wars![]() ![]() “It is with great relief that as of July 27, 2022,” Watson finally posted to Facebook, “I have ceased my employment and cut all ties with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (U.S). Watson seethed for almost a month before responding. (Beth Clifton collage) “I have ceased my employment & cut all ties” Navy report later called the campaign a ‘game changer’” for Sea Shepherd because “It was now operating with nation states in a legitimate protection of fisheries,” succeeding “in countering illegal fishing where private maritime security companies had failed.” The pursuit was actually not much different from previous Sea Shepherd pursuits of Japanese whalers in Antarctic waters, but, said Grimm, “A U.S. The pursuit, the longest in maritime history, ended with the scuttling of the trawler and the arrest of its captain.” ![]() A major turning point came in 2015 when Sea Shepherd Global’s Bob Barker-a former whaling ship painted with shark jaws on the bow-chased an illegal fishing vessel, Thunder, for 110 days and 10,000 nautical miles. Wrote Grimm, “The Sea Shepherd movement turned more of its focus toward overfishing and began to collaborate with foreign governments to help them monitor their waters. The Sea Shepherd vessel Bob Barker during the 2014 Antarctic campaign against Japanese whaling. In 1979 he borrowed $7,500, started rehabbing buildings in New England, and prospered.” “Afterward he sought spiritual growth in a Sikh ashram in Massachusetts, where he remained for five years before revolting against the power-hungry leader. He was arrested at the May 1971 antiwar demonstrations in Washington D.C. Lacking money for college, he spent two winters camping out and gathering shells for a living in Key West. “Born Paul LaBombard,” Conniff recited, “he ran away from his working-class family, smoked dope and organized a high school SDS chapter. Who is Pritam Singh?Īccording to a Decemprofile by Richard Conniff for Time, “One is unsure which jarring and inapposite piece of biography best begins to explain him: That he is a former Students for a Democratic Society organizer who is building a Ritz-Carlton hotel? Or that he is a developer whose fondest wish is to run away with Sea Shepherd and ram whaling ships? Perhaps that he is a Massachusetts-born Sikh of French-Canadian extraction, in a turban and a Ralph Lauren polo shirt? “I thought that Sea Shepherd Global would support me and I urged people to continue to support Global,” Watson added, “but under threat of lawsuits,” Watson said, Sea Shepherd Global on Septeminstead aligned itself with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (U.S.) ![]() After a month that page is still blocked to postings by myself. “My official Facebook page was blocked for trademark violations,” Watson charged, “because I had a picture of myself with a Sea Shepherd shirt in front of a Sea Shepherd flag. I was also told that I could not communicate with supporters, nor speak with the media, under threat of a lawsuit. This included not being able to post pictures of myself in a Sea Shepherd shirt or with the Sea Shepherd flag. The Sea Shepherd Conservation responded, said Watson, “by removing my picture, bio and history from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society web site, and legally threatened me to not use the logo I designed or the name Sea Shepherd that I created. “Since you have not complied with that request,” Cornelissen said, “the majority of the Global board has decided that it is a conflict of interest for you to remain as a director on the board of Sea Shepherd Global and has therefore reached the decision that you are no longer a director of Sea Shepherd Global.” Said the message, signed by Sea Shepherd Global chief executive Alex Cornelissen, a 20-year Sea Shepherd member and frequent vessel captain, “I am sorry to inform you that based on the conversations that we’ve had, and the legal issues between you and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, we asked you to step down from the board. Posted Watson, 71, to Facebook in an “Open message to Sea Shepherd supporters, “This morning I received an email informing me that the board of directors of Sea Shepherd Global dismissed me from the Global Board.” Pushed overboard because he didn’t walk the plank SOUTH WOODSTOCK, Vermont––Japanese and Russian whales, Atlantic Canadian sealers, and oceans of marine poachers in other parts of the world never succeeded in sinking Captain Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, but the organization he founded in 1977 on Septemscuttled Watson at dockside. (Beth Clifton collage) Under new brass, it isn’t even the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society any more ![]()
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