Category: Global Warning

Tags: Democracy, now, Amy, goodman, DN, news, 2012, politics, sharks, sea, shepherd, paul, watson, fin, soup, fins, shark, attacks

Captain Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, has been released on bail in Germany following his arrest for possible extradition to Costa Rica on decade-old charges stemming from a confrontation between a Sea Shepherd vessel with shark fin poachers off the coast of Guatemala. Sea Shepherd is known for using nonviolent direct action to enforce international fishing and conservation laws, and has been highly recognized for its anti-whaling efforts. Sea Shepherd continues to maintain that Watson's arrest was politically motivated and is calling on its supporters to come together in a day of action on Wednesday when the Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla visits Germany. Watson joins us from Frankfurt. "We've never injured anybody," Watson says. "The most powerful weapon in the world as far as I'm concerned is the camera, so we go into battle armed with cameras. ... Right now 19 million sharks a year are being destroyed to feed the shark fin industry in Asia. And that means the fins are cut off of these animals and they're thrown back into the ocean, and this is what we filmed off of Guatemala and this is what we intervened against -- a highly illegal operation." Published on May 22, 2012 by democracynow

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