| Porthole 21 Jun 12

AUSTRALIA gets a Sea Shepherd.
Hardline environmental activist organisation,
the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, has
offered its expertise, vessels, and resources
to help patrol and protect Australia’s newly
established and world’s largest marine
reserve, the Coral Sea, in an effort to “help
safeguard this magnificent ocean resource
and its marine life”.
Renowned for its no holds barred
approach to protecting the ocean and the
animals which inhabit it, Sea Shepherd has
reached out its hand to the Australian
Government, offering its assistance to
“collaborate and employ its resources and
expertise to protect the waters from foreign
fishing vessels illegally operating inside the
new Coral Sea marine sanctuary,
providing an enforcement solution that would
be at no cost to the Australian taxpayer”.
“We stand ready to put our enforcement
expertise to work for Australia’s Coral Sea
for the long term,” Sea Shepherd said.