18.01.2012 - 00:41 [ Maribyrnong Weekly ]

West‘s Vincent Burke in pursuit of Japanese whaling fleet

A WILLIAMSTOWN man is on a ship chasing a Japanese whaling fleet in Antarctica, intent on blocking a vessel used for processing harpooned whales.

SEA Shepherd Conservation Society member Vincent Burke, in charge of crew safety aboard the Bob Barker, says confrontation is imminent as anti-whaling protesters gain on a fleet illegally poaching within a declared whale sanctuary.