Fwd: Attn: J Orlin Grabbe

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>Subject: Attn: J Orlin Grabbe
>
>November: Iceland ignores Sea Shepherd's warning to comply with the IWC 
>ban on commercial whaling. Sea Shepherd agents sink half of Iceland's 
>whaling fleet in Reykjavik harbor and destroy their whale processing station.
>
>1988 March: A Sea Shepherd agent documents the killing of dolphins by a 
>U.S. tuna seiner. The footage scandalizes the nation, embarrasses the tuna 
>industry, and leads to the creation of the "dolphin-safe" tuna label law.
>
>1989 June: The Sea Shepherd II intercepts two Venezuelan tuna seiners off 
>the coast of Costa Rica, documents evidence of kills exceeding a thousand 
>dolphins, disrupts Mexican tuna seiner operations in the Eastern Pacific.
>
>1990 August: The Sea Shepherd II encounters two Japanese drift net vessels 
>in the eastern Pacific, cuts and confiscates thirty miles of drift net.
>
>1991 July: Sea Shepherd goes to Trinidad to protest Caribbean driftnetting 
>by the Taiwanese. Sea Shepherd is made an official auxiliary to the 
>Trinidad & Tobago Coast Guard.
>
>December 20th, 1991: The United Nation General Assembly approves 
>Resolution 46/215 which bans drift net fishing worldwide as of January 1993.
>
>1992 March: SSCS establishes the Oceanic Research and Conservation Action 
>Force, or O.R.C.A.FORCE, to coordinate all data gathering and crew actions 
>of Sea Shepherd. Lisa Distefano is appointed Director.
>
>May: O.R.C.A.FORCE agent scuttles the illegal driftnet vessel Jiang Hai in 
>the harbor at Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
>One-click activism:
>Send this report & your comments to the Costa Rican Ambassador: 
>http://eactivist.actionize.org/actnow.php?1338
>
>October 31st, 2001
>
>Cocos Island Emergency
>A report from Nicola Ghersinich and Mario Arroyo
>
>Every year, 1,250 visitors come to scuba dive Cocos Island, off Costa 
>Rica, attracted by its extraordinary biodiversity of this World Heritage Site.
>
>Today, Cocos Island can no longer be considered a marine reserve. It is 
>now a fishing base. What had been considered a sanctuary for threatened 
>marine species is now just an extended community for fishermen to exploit.
>
>We are confronting a crisis.
>(cont at http://www.seashepherd.org/campaigns/cocos/pr110601.html