Eco-terrorist group Sea Shepherd has announced it intends to attack boats fishing for Northern Bluefin Tuna, a species for which most demand comes from Japan.
In an interview with the terrorist group’s leader, Sankei was told that the group’s next target is the Mediterranean tuna fishing industry, acting in protection of the Northern Bluefin Tuna (“Kuromaguro”), stocks of which are low.
Sankei notes that 80% of the global catch of this species finds its way to Japan, where it is highly prized, indicating the group is deliberately targeting Japan.
In other comments the group continues to assert its recently lost vessel was rammed by whalers in an act of piratical terrorism, and brags of having $7,000,000 with which to make good its losses and attack the Mediterranean tuna fishing industry.
2ch is increasingly unhappy about all this:
So they were just an anti-Japanese group after all.
Just a bunch of racists.
Why don’t they take a look at their own abattoirs…
What? Wouldn’t they be European vessels in the Mediterranean?
No, Japanese boats ply those waters too.
So, will they be attacking French boats too?
They only ever attack Japanese.
If they start messing with non-Japanese ships there’ll be warships coming to greet them…
Everyone eats tuna, hardly anyone eats whale. Now even the Japanese who supported them will be turned against them.
Nobody cares about whalemeat, but don’t get between the Japanese and their tuna!
Tuna boats aren’t going to be half-baked in their response like whalers. If they board one, they’ll be beaten off the boat.
Do these guys think the men on those boats will just stand by like the gentle folk on those whaling ships? They won’t get off lightly.
In Japan, working a tuna boat means becoming a dead man. Challenging men who’ve thrown away their lives like that…
Do something about these terrorists.
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There have been a few reports concerning tuna in the mediterraean countries aswell. I can't bring myself to remember which group - greenpeace perhaps - published a list of whatever company actually fish tuna properly, without damaging the sea bottom and other kinds of fish which get caught in the nets. The list was published along a warning against the extinction of the tunas, as it seems they're in danger as a whole.
This is extremely sad for me, seeing as how much tuna I eat myself.
There was a shortage of this particular species of tuna just a few years ago. If you thought you were eating tuna back in 2007, well, think again.
A lot of sushi is being made with substitute fish with similar appearance and flavor because their real counterparts are becoming harder to find. Their methods are retarded, but Sea Sheperd does have a point in saying that we, as a global society, have an obsession with sushi that needs to be tempered. I don't know how accurate marine biologists are with their predictions of fish depletion, but I'd like to keep eating my sushi -- in very, very moderate quantities.
Not in Japan. If sushi fans can tell from taste which part of the fish the meat is from, how much success do you think they'd have substituting another species?
I think Sea Shepherd has chosen a clear target. They can't afford to screw around with more aggressive countries' fishing efforts.
A lot of success. Supermarket sushi and any restaurant sushi where the price seems inexpensive or average will likely have these substitutes. You make it sound like half the country is made up of sushi gourmands.
Well, it kind of *is*. You certainly would see this kind of stuff in the convenience store ones and the rotating table restaurants.
But in ye olde shop of $5 per piece sushi made by chefs who spend a large portion of their life seriously apprenticing in sushi making?
Doubtful.
It does seem kind of random though, everybody eats tuna, which is of course the problem, but why would they target something that just won't be stopped by the likes of these small fry, no pun intended. lol they make me laugh with the 7 mill boast, 7 million is probably what one tuna boat could turnover in a day. So for the one tuna boat they might destory the over thousand would be still doing just as much damage. It's like treading on a single ant and expecting the whole nest of ants to cave in.
Why cant they just get into some kind of agreement... Japan should stop hunting whales and the Sea Shepherd would stop intervine with their fisheries activities or something like that.
I'm sorry, we don't negotiate with terrorists.
someone needs to fund a terrorist group that targets terrorist groups o.0
you mean a justice league lol
@11:13, isnt that what you call a vigilante group?
anyways, i hate seafood, so i dont really care where this goes.
@11:13
You mean like Celestial Being?
If you want to be technical, that agreement is already in place. If Japan actually followed international law (or other countries were enforcing it) then the Sea Shepherds would have no gripe and no funding.
The problem is not enough of the voting public cares to push it up to their representatives who in turn would take it to the diplomats. Minimal domestic pressure results in international laws not being enforced since no one has an interest in enforcing laws that are not hurting their home country. Basically.. no one who holds power cares, and the power holders are so abstracted away from the voting base that influencing them is next to impossible without enough outcry that it effects the local politicians.
@10:49
Anon is Paragon Shepard.
@11:13
Illusive Man has mysterious source of funding.
@22:40
No, it's clearly Cerberus.
Anonymous
08:22
correct me if im wrong, but anti whaling laws have certain groups which are allowed to whale so long as they don't over whale.
its not like they are attacking endangered species, they are only going after ones that are stable and in plentiful ammounts.
remember whales aren't all blue whales, there are smaller ones that have great numbers.
and japan is one of these places that are internationaly allowed to whale.
>we, as a global society, have an obsession with sushi
A few islands off the coast of China does not a global society make
Besides, tuna tastes like shit, if the Japs want to stuff their faces with the crap they are welcome to it
What happened to fish farming?
Sushi is popular in America as well as Asian countries. Probably Europe as well. Though maybe not Australia, Australia seems to hate japs too much to like sushi. Especially whites in america. They seem to associate eating sushi with being cultured and welloff. After all, sushi is really expensive and as a dish, pretty unique. Its kind of like buying a Prius. Its a sign of being ecologically concerned and a better person.
I know its popular in Asia and America. Don't know how big of a global community that is. But definitely more than just a few islands off the coast of China.
I don't eat seafood, but tuna seems like a shit reason to attack ships...
I'm gonna have to go with the majority and say that its most likely racism (or what they would call "revenge," though their ship totally had it coming...)
yeah sure start the race war and overlook the environment . you politically correct whores
Yes, and I'm pretty sure the North American governments (Canada and United States) are front and center in following the Kyoto pact and the recent Copenhagen environment summit, and they're the prime example for the entire world to follow in helping reduce pollution to curb global warming.. Wait...
We're not as bad as China =(
True, North America's not as bad as China in pollution levels. But people tend to forget that China's pollution is increased due to the factories being built by North American corporations, and products being produced in China for worldwide consumers, especially North Americans. It's easy to turn your heads and point fingers, when in reality everything is linked.
When are the Japanese gonna start firing torpedos at these guys?
Fuck torpedoes; this needs GUNDAM
I can't wait for their next vessel; the Robinboat
Fuck Gundam, this needs America
I guess only Americans themselves think that the rest of the world can't survive without them saving another day (sarcasm)*
Just so you know,
Gundam > America
Yes Gundam > America
ANY super robot / sentai robot / ultraman > America
F*ck America.
All hail Britanian.
What about if they get Gundam Maxter? Then both parties are happy.
Pfft, a couple hundred years ago we raided the (not so) Great Britain.
Don't make me kick your ass medieval style.
Japan should get it's own army already. But the mechas doesn't seem to obey the laws of physics, which make them useless.
the sun never sets on the brit...nevermind
Re 02:20
Hail Britain for what? What do you have besides a couple o' good actors and general hypocritical faggotry?
"Japan should get it's own army already."
For some reason they can't do that. I'm not sure why, maybe it has something to do with WWII, whatever that was.
Would it surprise you to know that Japan was among the top 5 countries around the world in military spending only a few years back? They've dropped a few places since, but still very much within the current top 10.
Gee, I wonder what are the Japanese buying? New uniforms?
I'm pretty sure he was making a Code Geass reference. Britannia is the country that takes over Japan and renames it Eleven
American found!
I see that all comments that tries to hold any reasonable pint of logic and sense gets voted down.
So I say have the countries nuke each other to bits. Why try so hard to come with a solution if you can just get rid of the problem so easily anyway. I mean, with all the nukes combined in the world, there is plenty to destroy the earth few times over.
This is what Japan gets for having a faggots ridden diplomacy; the best international politics are COURAGE; if you don't show COURAGE nobody on the community of nations would respect you.
They need to embrace the American way.
3:19 and yet have no army of their own, whose army is the money going into?
with that answer i feel youll be a little wiser. youre welcome.
7:32 you do realize that they have a "Self Defense Force" with air, naval, and ground branches, right? That's where their defense budget is going. It's much much smaller than, say, the U.S. budget, but then again, they aren't going for world police global power projection. Their budget is still comparable to a number of other countries.
^
You clearly have lost touch with reality, or just very misinformed. Japan supposedly has no standing army but they still has an armed defense force that is couple hundred times more powerful than some so-called "armies" in some third world countries. It's like they have a gun that they are told to not to shoot with. But they can still kill people with it. Germany had something similar going on in WWI, and that did not end well as we have all come to know.
Correct me if I am wrong... but it seems they are AUSTRALIAN NOT AMERICAN...
Then consider yourself corrected. They're American. I think the leader is Canadian, or something.
They only operate out of Australia for a few months of the year because it's the closest port to the Japanese whaling activities.
Hm, nevermind. I was responding to someone way above, but the comment was posted down here. Must have clicked a stray button...
To rid of eco-terrorists that jeopardize the marine economy of our nation and the world;
We are the Celestial Fishes!
Fuck Gundam, this needs Super Sayans.
Fuck Super Saiyans, this needs Japan.
fuck super saiyans, this needs lelouch
No, Fuck you.
we need molotovs!
to throw at sea shepherd/terrorist!
KILL DOLPHIN AND WHALE!
Actually, 01:23 has a good point. The JMSDF can get the help of US Navy SEALs stationed in Japan to get rid of Sea Shepherd's top members. It's probably far more practical than employing Gundams, especially considering the fact that we're dealing with a relatively small group of people that could hide anywhere in the globe.
being in this thread makes me feel i'm in the movie "Idiocracy"..
why gundams? everyone knows Zeon had the superior navy... Jeeg Jion!
why use navy when they have....COLONY!!!