factory ship
- n a whaling ship equipped to process whale products at sea
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- Japan whalers driven from hunting ground: Sea Shepherd
Anti-whaling activists Sea Shepherd on Tuesday said Japan's fleet had been separated and driven out of its Antarctic hunting ground, declaring an early success in its campaign to disrupt the annual hunt. The militant group said the five-vessel fleet was "in disarray" and currently not hunting whales, with the harpoon ships separated from each other by hundreds of miles and the factory ship ...
Jan. 7, 2014 - AFP via Yahoo! News - Sea Shepherd Locates Japanese Whaling Fleet
Anti-whaling activists with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society announced that they have caught up with Japan's whaling fleet near Antarctica. Sea Shepherd said on Monday it had found all five Japanese vessels in the Southern Ocean and had photographic evidence that showed three minke whales had been killed and were being cut up on the factory ship Nisshin Maru. The group also claimed to have ...
Jan. 6, 2014 - Voice of America