Shane Rattenbury Quotes (11 Quotes)

Every hour that the fleet is on the run, more whales will live.

We caught up with the whalers again late last night and saw seven whale carcasses on the deck.

It's been a Mexican stand-off in continual bad weather, but today is fine. If your business is hunting whales, today is a good day for it.

Their hunting season goes until the middle of March but we won't go on that long, we'd love to but we can't.

We've had a number of occasions where individual whales have escaped because we have driven our inflatable boats between the harpooner and the whale.

This is supposed to be a whale sanctuary and the Japanese government is the only one in the world which is defying the ban on whaling here.

There is definitely an increasing level of tensions down here and the harpooners are certainly starting to take shots that perhaps a week or two weeks ago they would not have taken. Yesterday took it to a new level we are very concerned about that.

In a world were international public opinion is ignored and where high level diplomatic pressure has failed, Greenpeace hopes that consumers can once and for all demonstrate that there is no profit in whaling.

The Fisheries Agency of Japan, the ICR and the whaling fleet are out of control. The hunt is bankrupt on all counts scientifically, ecologically, morally and financially. With the market for whale meet in Japan collapsing and stock piles rising, it is clear that the whaling business is bad. Over the coming months we will be calling on consumers world-wide to join us in telling the companies that whaling is bad for business. Not everyone can join us on the high seas to defend the whales but they can join us on the high streets.

We are bringing the campaign back to the land... there is no place for whaling in the 21st century.

We don't know exactly what their next move will be, but we assume they will return to the hunting grounds.