Costa Rica and Germany have simply been pawns in the Japanese quest to silence Sea Shepherd in an attempt to stop our annual opposition of their illegal whaling activities.
If we wipe out the fish, the oceans are going to die. If the oceans die, we die. We can't live on this planet with a dead ocean.
Putting Zodiacs in front of whaling vessels doesn't do it anymore. Done that, been there, seen that.
The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics.
Pete Bethune is a hero in New Zealand. He's a hero worldwide to people who want to see the end of whaling.
Ships are expendable; the whales are not.