Trawlermen fire potatoes at Greenpeace activists

Greenpeace said fishermen fired potatoes at the group’s activists today when they used inflatable boats to disrupt a trawling ship near New Zealand in a protest timed to coincide with UN talks on managing the world’s oceans.

The activists delayed the trawler Ocean Reward in the Tasman Sea for about an hour by attaching a life raft to its net, Greenpeace campaigner Carmen Gravatt said from aboard the protest vessel Rainbow Warrior.