Captain of seal hunt protest ship charged
The captain and first officer of a ship used by a conservation group to protest against Canada’s annual seal hunt have been charged with getting too close to hunters.
Canada’s fisheries department said Captain Alexander Cornelissen and First Officer Peter Hammarstedt of the Farley Mowat, a vessel used by the US-based Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, broke a law prohibiting anyone without a valid seal-hunt observation licence from coming within a half nautical mile of a seal hunt.
