Minister defends armed seizure of protest ship

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Helen Morris, Canwest News Service via National Post

The Fisheries Minister defended the seizure of an anti-sealing group's ship Saturday, an act the group's leader called "an act of war."

An armed RCMP team, working in a joint operation with Fisheries and the coast guard, boarded and seized the Sea Shepherd vessel Farley Mowat that was monitoring the annual seal hunt in the Gulf of St. Lawrence Saturday.

Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Loyola Hearn had little sympathy for the protesters' tactics. "They are a bunch of money-sucking manipulators," said Mr. Hearn, "and their sole aim is to try to suck as much money out of the pockets of people who really don't know what's going on."

Mr. Hearn said the ship was boarded and the captain and first officer arrested because the Farley Mowat failed to comply with warnings and continued to violate marine and fisheries regulations. The Minister said that he wanted the activities of the Farley Mowat stopped before someone got killed.

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[flvegan]

1. Too late.

The Canadian Coast Guard killed 4 sealers a few days ago.

Hearn, half a moron that he is, shut down Sea Shepherd the Bush way. Illegally occupation via guns and gestapo.

Thanks for the escalation to international incident, you fucking idiot. When the EU bans seal pelts, we can thank in part, your stupidity. I'll personally send you a card.