Whales are getting the worst... I think it's that they don't have the budget for surveillance anymore...
This here below is what they used to do!!
Gunboat diplomacy rules seas
December 29, 2007
Australia's deployment of an armed ship to monitor whaling is part of a bigger political picture, writes Andrew Darby.
Take a group of fit young paramilitary Australians, give them a need to let off steam while they policed a beat in the vast Southern Ocean, and a big ship to do it on.
What did they come up with? Dodgeball.
In a former life, the Australian fisheries patrol ship Oceanic Viking, now tasked with chasing Japanese whalers, was a cable layer. It carried long lines of undersea cable, coiled in tall cylindrical holds amidships.
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Australia govt says will not monitor Japan whalers
Friday, November 21 12:20 am
Reuters Rob Taylor
Australia will not send a fisheries patrol ship this year to shadow Japanese whalers and protests near Antarctica, the government said on Friday, appealing for activists to keep high seas protests peaceful.
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