The conservationists said with Japan’s annual hunt on hold after an International Court of Justice ruling, it would focus its summer campaign on halting the fishing of rare Antarctic and Patagonian toothfish, vowing to “track down the criminal profiteers”.
Their lead ship, Bob Barker, left the Tasmanian port of Hobart with a second ship, Sam Simon, joining it from New Zealand in the next week for the three-month mission.
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