Activists tackle tuna fishers in Pacific

0 Comments | AFP, April, 2008

SYDNEY (AFP) — Ship-borne activists said Tuesday they had targeted fishing boats from South Korea, Taiwan and the United States in high-seas protests against the "plundering" of tuna in the Pacific.

In the latest confrontation, crew from the Greenpeace ship Esperanza boarded a Taiwanese boat, the Nian Sheng 3, to inspect their catch, a spokesman said.

The captain of the tuna boat, which also contained hundreds of frozen shark fins and tails, allowed the activists to board, Greenpeace campaign leader Lagi Toribau told AFP by telephone from the Esperanza.

"Greenpeace are not a violent campaigning organisation," he said, while adding that the activists were prepared to "interfere with their physical fishing activities in order for us to save the last tuna...