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    The Nisshin Maru (日新丸) was the primary vessel of the Japanese whaling fleet and was the world's only whaler factory ship. It was the research base ship...
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    joined Farley Mowat in order to prevent the Japanese whaling vessel Nisshin Maru from hunting in an action Sea Shepherd called Operation Leviathan. Sea...
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  • Strait in July 1943 Nisshin (Japanese warship), launched in 1869 日新丸: Nisshin Maru, a Japanese whaling ship that was targeted by activist group Sea Shepherd...
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    blocking Nisshin Maru's slipway. On 18 February 2011, after being aggressively tailed by Bob Barker for over 3,000 nmi (5,556 km), Nisshin Maru changed...
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  • primarily takes place aboard the Japanese factory whaling vessel, the Nisshin Maru, in the Sea of Japan, as it makes its annual journey to Antarctica. Two...
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    two tankers to be converted into factory ships, the Hashidate Maru and the Nisshin Maru. Whale catchers once again took blue whales, fins, humpbacks and...
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  • packages of slippery methyl cellulose powder onto the Japanese vessel Nisshin Maru. Australian foreign minister Stephen Smith condemned Sea Shepherd's actions...
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    registered as a Motor Yacht (MY). On 21 December 1999 Arctic Sunrise and Nisshin Maru, a Japanese whaling ship, collided. The same ships collided again in...
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    Iceland, and Japan among those still operating them. Of those, the Nisshin Maru of Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR) is the only whaling factory...
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    An adult and sub-adult Minke whale are dragged aboard the Japanese whaling vessel Nisshin Maru....
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