Mounties Arrest The Farley Mowat - Captain Calls It An Act Of War

The RCMP raided the sailing vessel "Farley Mowat" and arrested two senior members of the crew for coming too close to the annual seal hunt. They will appear in a Sydney court room and could face charges of $100,000 or a year in jail. Their ship was seized and being held in Sydney Nova Scotia.

The captain Paul Watson is calling the seizure an act of war since the ship was in international waters at the time of the arrest. The ship is registered in the Netherlands and not subject to Canadian laws.

On March 30th the Farley Mowat skimmed against an ice breaker that was responding to a call that the ship was too close to the hunt. Captain Watson claims the ice breaker ran in to his vessel and not the other way around.

The group that owns the boat (Sea Shepherd Society) claims to have sunk 6 vessels involved in whale and seal hunting, but no human lives were claimed. They have also been tear gassed in Japan during the 80's when they tried to stop a whale hunting ship.

Maybe someone should tell these people that human lives are also important. It is groups like this that give environmentalists a bad name. Rogue tactics and dangerous stunts do nothing to save the environment and hurt their cause in the end. This group needed to be stopped before they killed someone here.