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 [Ocean Defenders - the weblog] Gorton's, Sealord and Nissui Withdraw from... : Well, seafood suppliers Gorton's, Sealord and their parent company Nissui have announced that they are withdrawing their active support for Japanese whaling. This doesn't mean the end the Japanese scientific whaling program - but we've made our point - whaling is bad for business.

  Musings of a Liberal Texan: After loads of pressure from Greenpeace members and other animal rights groups, the Gorton's Fisherman and its Japanese parent company have agreed to get out of whaling for good. What a great reprieve for our graceful giants of the sea!

 [Ocean Defenders - the weblog] Southern Ocean leg highlights: ©Greenpeace/Sutton-HibbertWith the ship is about to depart on a new leg of the Defending Our Oceans expedition it is time to finally close out our first leg - where we went right down to the ice of Antarctica to protect the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.

[mgk: Machine Gun Keyboard] Greenpeace activists speak in Sydney: This year, the whale hunters were so stymied by the speed of the activists that they twice rammed large Greenpeace vessels and tried several times to sink several of the smaller inflatable craft with firehoses. MV Esperanza got a scratched paint job when sideswiped by the hunter/killer ship Kyo Maru and Arctic Sunrise was famously set up for a collision by the processor/freezer vessel Nisshin Maru.

 [The Flack] When Parents Misbehave: Dave Weber, Gorton's VP-environmental affairs, told O'Dwyer's that Gorton's "has neither engaged in whaling activities, nor killed a single whale in its 156-year history, and never will." How far can Gorton's go in defending its corporate reputation without alienating its Japanese parent? What kind of coordination exists between parent and child in dealing with this crisis?

[Greenpeace.org] Gortons and Whaling | Greenpeace International: Well we know that whale watching has proved a lucrative industry in many parts of the world, far more profitable than the loss-making business of killing whales, freezing the meat and failing to sell it. We'd suggest that the whaling fleet devote itself to educating tourists about whales, because as we and the whales know only too well, there's no-one as good at spotting whales as the whaling fleet.

[Blog.thedemocraticdaily.com] The Democratic Daily Blog » Blog Archive » Greenpeace Activists ...: “Gorton’s asks consumers to ”˜Trust the Gorton’s fisherman,’ but Americans will not trust a company linked to whale killings,” said John Hocevar, Greenpeace Oceans Specialist. “When Gorton’s see its parent company harpooning whales this month, will they do everything in their power to stop these killings, or will they keep denying responsibility?”

 [Whale-watching.blogspot.com] Whale Watching: "If Greenpeace action becomes more aggressive, the Fisheries Agency may ask the Maritime Police Agency to dispatch aircraft," the deputy director of the Far Seas Fisheries Division of Japan's Fisheries Agency, Mr Hideki Moronuki told the Herald yesterday. "Or the agency may ask the Government of Australia to take action to normalise the situation."

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