The next part of the plan was for Captain Watson to not be on the ship so as to remove himself as the excuse for a boarding party because of his Canadian citizenship. The crew were to maintain radio silence and Captain Watson would make controversial statements from shore to goad and manipulate Fisheries Minister Loyola Hearn to act rashly and to respond emotionally – which he did.

Hearn took the bait and got himself stuck into the Sea Shepherd strategy by doing the one thing we most wanted him to do – we provoked him into sending an armed boarding party illegally onto a foreign ship in international waters.

It was brilliant and he fell for it.

At the same time he utilized Bre’r Fox’s tar baby strategy, Captain Watson also incorporated Bre’r rabbit’s strategy into a plan that took into account the psychology of Canadian Minister of Fisheries Loyola Hearn and the bizarre regulations of the Canadian government in defending the slaughter of seals.

In Canada under the “Seal Pro