Take a Video Tour of Our Ship
Come aboard the Sea Shepherd flagship Farley Mowat. Join
Take a Video Tour of Our Ship
Come aboard the Sea Shepherd flagship Farley Mowat. Join tour guide Jonny Vasic (Chief Cook onboard the 2005 Seal Campaign) as he shows you a bit about life onboard with the Sea Shepherds.
Please please visit our website for more information;
http://seashepherd.org/
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We would like to thank Rob Stewart and the makers of SHARKWATER for footage used in this v
We would like to thank Rob Stewart and the makers of SHARKWATER for footage used in this video.
One of the priority campaigns for Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is the global problem of longline fishing.
It is the policy of the Society to directly intervene to stop the illegal use of longlines.
What is a Longline?
A longline is a fishing line usually made of monofilament. The length of the line generally ranges from 1.6km (1 mile) to as long as 100km (62 miles). The line is buoyed by styrofoam or plastic floats. Every hundred or so feet, there is a secondary line attached extending down about 5m (16 feet). This secondary line is hooked and baited with squid, fish, or in cases we have discovered, with fresh dolphin meat.
The baited hooks can be seen by albatross from the air and when they dive on the hooks, they are caught and they drown. Other forms of marine wildlife see the bait from the waters below and get hooked when they try to eat the bait.
The lines are set adrift from vessels for a period of 12 to 24 hours.
What Are These Longlines Doing to the Sharks?
Longlines are the most significant factor in the rapid diminishment of shark populations in the oceans. Longlines ranging from one mile in length to over one hundred miles in length are baited with fish, (often illegally killed dolphins or seals), and are meant to target shark, swordfish, and tuna. The sharks targeted are caught mostly for their fins (which account for only 4% of their body weight) and also for their cartilage, liver oil, and teeth. The longline fishermen remove the fins and toss the still living shark back into the sea to die an agonizing death. Unable to swim, they slowly sink towards the bottom where other fish eat them alive. If longlines are not abolished, the oceans will lose most species of sharks within the next decade. Please visit our Shark Finning page for more information.
http://seashepherd.org/longline/longline_shark_finning.html
What Are These Longlines Doing to the Sea Turtles?
Many species of sea turtles fall victim to the deadly hooks of the longliners.
20,000 loggerhead turtles are captured every year by the Spanish longline fishery in the Mediterranean Sea, and 4,000 of them are believed to die because they are returned to the sea with the hook still embedded in their throats.
Sea Shepherd crew have recorded dozens of turtle carcasses along the Pacific coast of Central America. When examined, all the dead turtles were found to have hooks embedded in their throats.
According to the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), 75% of the loggerhead turtles and 40% of the leatherback turtles taken by United States-based pelagic longliners in the Atlantic are caught on the Grand Banks in the North Atlantic .
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reports that 40,000 sea turtles are killed annually in the global longline fisheries.
Leatherback turtles, the largest turtles in the world, will be extinct within a few decades if current fishing practices continue. That is the conclusion of marine researchers speaking at the 2002 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Denver. "We've done specific analysis on beaches where we've got a lot of data and we expect them to disappear in 10 to 30 years," said Larry Crowder, from Duke University, North Carolina.
What Are These Longlines Doing to the Albatross?
A seafaring symbol for centuries, immortalized in Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, albatrosses roam widely across vast expanses of the oceans of the world, rarely coming ashore except to breed on remote oceanic islands in or near the Southern Ocean.
Unfortunately for the various species of albatross in this remote part of the world, fleets of hundreds of fishing vessels from Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Indonesia hunt the Southern bluefin tuna, sharks, and billfish.
Albatross and other seabird species are caught and dragged underwater to their deaths on these deadly, baited hooks as they are launched from the ships.
As many as 100 million hooks a year are set by the Japanese fleet alone in the Southern bluefin tuna fishery. Tens of thousands of birds are being killed annually.
One conservative calculation for albatross killed on Japanese longliners is 44,000 per year. The actual figure could be double that, according to researchers, but data on albatross kills by other nations' fishing vessels is not available.
Twelve of the world's 14 albatross species are believed to be dying in the tens of thousands each year in this way. Because of the large number of birds affected, commercial fishing has been identified as the most serious threat to the survival of most albatross species.
For more information on what Sea Shepherd is doing to combat lonline fishing please visit our longline campaign page;
http://seashepherd.org/longline/
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Picture Book of Paul Watson, and his poem 30 Years War. It is a variation of the 1st vide
Picture Book of Paul Watson, and his poem 30 Years War. It is a variation of the 1st video, but with better background and scripting. Music is "Dance of Russian Sailors" arrangement by Alex Siniavski.
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Antarctic Whale Defense Campaign
Operation Migaloo 07-08
Odyssey For The Whales:
20,
Antarctic Whale Defense Campaign
Operation Migaloo 07-08
Odyssey For The Whales:
20,000 Miles, 68 Crew Members, And 83 Days At Sea For The Whales In The Southern Ocean
Sea Shepherds fourth expedition to the remote southern waters off the coast of Antarctica . Japan is targeting endangered whales in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary and Sea Shepherd will not stand by while whales die. With our ship, the Steve Irwin and a dedicated crew of 41 international volunteers, the Whales' Navy, under the command of founder and president, Captain Paul Watson, will uphold and enforce international conservation regulations on the high seas against the Japanese whaling fleet's self imposed quota of 935 piked whales, 50 endangered humpback whales and 50 endangered fin whales in the Southern Oceans.
The campaign is named in honor of Migaloo, the only known albino humpback in the world. This year, with the sights of the ruthless Japanese harpooners set square on the endangered humpbacks, Migaloo and all of his family are under imminent threat of death at the hands of Japanese pirate whalers. As the relentless Japanese whalers seek to hunt down and kill Migaloo and his family, Sea Shepherd will be hunting the whalers with the firm objective of intervention against their illegal activities.
"I did not establish the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a protest organization," said Captain Watson. "I have not gone to sea over all these years to simply bear witness to the atrocities that whalers continue to inflict upon the most gentle and intelligent beings in the seas. We are sea cops—operating legally under the guidelines of the United Nation's World Charter for Nature, which allow for the enforcement of international conservation law by non-governmental organizations in international jurisdictions."
For more than three decades, Sea Shepherd has been at the forefront of the whale wars, defending the gentle giants wherever and whenever we can. Sea Shepherd has tackled overwhelming odds with insufficient resources, won many victories, and saved the lives of thousands of whales. In 2005--2006, we harried the Japanese fleet enough to ensure they went home 83 whales short of their self-appointed quota. In the 2006--2007 Operation Leviathan campaign they were over 500 whales short of their illegal quota. The Sea Shepherds have returned to the Antarctic this year with a ship to match their speed, new equipment for intervention, and an international crew of dedicated volunteers willing to spend the holidays in at the bottom of the earth in a historic voyage to save whales.
It was an epic voyage and an extremely effective campaign. We accomplished more than we thought we would, engaged in numerous confrontations with the Japanese whalers, and exposed the issue of illegal Japanese whaling to the entire world--especially in Japan where for the first time Japanese whaling was a frequent news topic in the media.
Sea Shepherd is on a quest to protect the greatest treasure of the seas -- the great whales. "We are obsessed with stopping the Cetacean Death Star, that viciously cruel killing machine otherwise known as the Nisshin Maru , and her ruthless fleet of hunter/killer boats armed with their explosive deadly blunt harpoons," said Watson. "Because I know that if we kill the whales, the sharks, the seals, and the sea turtles, we will destroy the very foundation of life in the oceans—and in so doing, we will destroy humankind.
Defending Whales
http://seashepherd.org/whales/
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Tribute to Paul watson and Sea Shepherd
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Even after the IWC corrected the estimated stocks of whales to the half Japan, Norway, Ice
Even after the IWC corrected the estimated stocks of whales to the half Japan, Norway, Iceland an other are still slaughtering whales every year. This is NO research, its just babaric slaughter of highly intelligent mammals.
For more infos in English look at: http://www.seasheapherd.org
In German on http://www.migaloo.de
STOP THE SLAUGHTER OF WHALES !
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Nach wie vor sterben jedes Jahr Millionen von Tieren nur ihrer Haut willen. Sie erleiden e
Nach wie vor sterben jedes Jahr Millionen von Tieren nur ihrer Haut willen. Sie erleiden entweder lange grausame Qualen in Zuchtfarmen, werden in freier Wildbahn mit Fallen und Gewehren erlegt oder auf Eisschollen totgeprügelt. Das ganze für eine milliardenschwere Industrie, der völlig egal ist, was die Tiere erleiden müssen nur damit ein paar Spinner sich mit fremder Haut bekleiden können. Eine Verfechterin für Pelz ist Frau Susanne Kolb-Wachtel, die Geschäftsführerin des Deutschen Pelzinstitutes, einer Lobbyistengemeinschaft der Pelzindustrie. Weitere Informationen dazu gibt es im Migaloo Blog unter : http://blog.migaloo.de/2008/04/23/die-deutsche-pelzindustrie -und-ihre-wege/
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Why join in the panda-ring on myspace?
These facts and statistics give you every reaso
Why join in the panda-ring on myspace?
These facts and statistics give you every reason to take a stand, make a statement and take part in Earth Day 2008 and educate even more!
(I own none of the images and don't claim to - and the facts were sourced so may not be totally true)
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Focus TV: Sharkwater & Sharkproject part 2
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