02/09/2010 11:24:43 AM EST
Anti-whalers, Japanese fleet fire water cannons
ADELAIDE, –(AP) Activists vowing to stop the killing of whales exchanged water-cannon fire with a Japanese whaling fleet they are tailing in the
Antarctic Ocean
.
The Sea Shepherd conservation group said its ships, the Steve Irwin and the Bob Barker, confronted the Japanese factory ship Nisshin Maru early Monday.
"The factory ship. . .
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