Article in Newsday on Sea Shepherd crewmember Matt Kelly protection turtles in Trinidad and Tobago. December 27, 2003:
http://www.newsday.co.tt/stories.php?article_id=12028
Article by Captain Paul Watson published in the New Zealand Herald December 25, 2003 on Mad Cow Disease:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3541060&thesection=news&thesubsection=dialogue
The same article was published in CounterPunch on December 24, 2003:
http://www.counterpunch.org/watson12242003.html
The San Francisco Gate included Sea Shepherd's picture of the Taiji, Japan dolphin slaughter in their Pictures of the Year:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2003/12/22/yipoct.DTL
http://www.mendocinobeacon.com/Stories/0,1413,94~3593~1808951,00.html
Updates on Sea Shepherd ships
The Farley Mowat is in dry-dock in Seattle until the end of January, 2004. The ship will depart for the Galapagos in early February.
The Sirenian has completed her annual dry-docking in Ecuador and is back on patrol for the National Park in the Galapagos
Current Active Sea Shepherd Campaigns
- Protection of the Galapagos National Park (GNP) Marine Reserve - Ecuador
- Protection of Cocos Island National Park Marine Reserve - Costa Rica
- Opposition to the slaughter of dolphin in Japan
- Opposition to the capture and slaughter of dolphins in the Solomon Islands
- Program of confiscation of illegal long lines worldwide
- Opposition to the slaughter of pilot whales in the Danish Faeroe Islands
- Opposition to the Canadian Commercial Seal Hunt
- Opposition to the illegal killing of whales by Japan, Iceland, and Norway
- Protection of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland from illegal fishing
- Protection of sea-turtles in the Caribbean
- Opposition to the Deployment of Low Frequency Sonar testing by the United States Navy
- Campaign to discourage the consumption of shark fins in Asia
- Campaign to oppose domestic salmon farming
Reward Programs
- $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person who murdered conservationist Jane Tipson killed in St. Lucia in September 2003
- $500 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of people illegally killing marine mammals, turtles, and sea-birds in U.S. waters
- $500 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of people illegally exploiting fish, mollusks and sea vegetables in U.S. waters.
December Updates on Crewmembers
- Matt Kelly (Crew on the Antarctic campaign 2003-2004) is presently in Tobago working to protect sea-turtles
- Ken Nichols (Crew on the 1998 Makah campaign) is in Palestine working for peace between the Israelis and Palestinians
- Matt Taylor (Crew on the Caribbean campaign 2001) is serving as a military policeman for the U.S. Army in Iraq
- Dean Walton (Crew on the Antarctic campaign 2003-2004) is presently in Grenada working to protect sea-turtles and sea birds