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POPSGroups sue federal government over sea turtles The groups suing want the courts to shut down the Gulf long-line fishing season until a better management plan is in place, potentially threatening a more than $30 million-a-year industry involving about 100 boats, mostly based in Florida. It's a prospect fishermen fear. "If they shut us down for five or six months, it's going to kill our infrastructure, all the fish houses, all the people that supply us and buy from us," said Randy Baker, who owns three boats in Madeira Beach, Fla., just south of Tampa. "It will crush us."
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POPS Hard Talk With Captain Paul Watson
Not so hard really... But read the whole interview and see...Here's a bit more: What they don’t understand is that we don’t care what people in Atlantic Canada think of us. We are not playing to them. We are reaching out to inform Europeans because the Europeans have the power to end this slaughter. We discovered years ago that the only tactic that will work is to destroy the market for the grisly products of the seal trade. Danny Williams should either arrest me or shut up. Calling me a terrorist may be cute but it has no foundation in reality. I’ve never injured anyone, been convicted of a crime, nor am I under investigation for any crime. And if I want to go to Newfoundland I will – I am a Canadian citizen and Danny Williams has no right to restrict my access to a province that is a part of my country. He is arrogant in the extreme if he thinks he can do so. Peter Brown: You seem to have had a good crew for the seal campaign? Captain Paul Watson: This was
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POPSSea Shepherd to Bill $1000.00 a Day for the Farley Mowat “And we will sue again,” said Captain Paul Watson. “We will not have the government of Canada trample on our rights as citizens and we will not have the government setting a precedent of boarding non-Canadian vessels in international waters with armed boarding parties. We intend to fight this battle in the courts and we intend to win based on the evidence that the government of Canada acted unlawfully for political reasons to further the selfish ambitions of Canadian Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Loyola Hearn.” Even the people of Newfoundland believe that the Farley Mowat should be returned to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. A week-end poll by the Newfoundland newspaper the Western Star had 75% voting to return the ship.
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