Sea Shepherd conservation group presses Australia's coalition government to honour pledge to monitor fleet's activities
Japan's whaling fleet is on its way to the Southern Ocean, where it hopes to kill almost 1,000 whales this winter as the world awaits a ruling on Australia's landmark legal attempt to ban the controversial hunts.
Two whaling vessels and a surveillance ship left the south-western port of Shimonoseki at the weekend and are expected to link up with the fleet's factory ship, the Nisshin Maru, Kyodo News reported.
As the fleet began its long journey to the Antarctic to slaughter up to 935 minke whales and 50 fin whales in waters that Australia considers a sanctuary for the mammals, campaigners called on Canberra to send a customs vessel to observe the whalers.
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