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Announcing Operation Ice Storm

From Captain Paul Watson Foundation
April 2024

Despite widespread opposition from the Icelandic public (a recent poll suggests over 51% of Icelanders oppose whaling) and Iceland’s Fisheries Minister temporarily revoking Kristján Loftsson’s whaling company Hvalur hf’s whaling license last summer, he continues to leverage his political influence in pursuit of resuming whaling operations.

Kristján Loftsson, the wealthiest and most politically influential man in Iceland, has ignited a storm of controversy in the North Atlantic.

Despite widespread opposition from the Icelandic public (a recent poll suggests over 51% of Icelanders oppose whaling) and Iceland’s Fisheries Minister temporarily revoking Kristján Loftsson’s whaling company Hvalur hf’s whaling license last summer, he continues to leverage his political influence in pursuit of resuming whaling operations. Loftsson plans to deploy two ships armed with explosive harpoons (Hvalur 8 and Hvalur 9) in June.

Commercial whaling was outlawed in 1986 when the International Whaling Commission declared a global moratorium on whaling. Fin whales are universally protected under international conservation law.

Kristján Loftsson however is confident that he will get what he wants.

We are confident that we can prevent him from getting what he wants.

In two months, we will once again sail into the waters off Iceland to aggressively but non-violently intervene against the whale killing machines. We’ve stopped Kristján Loftsson before, we cut his whaling fleet in half and saved hundreds of whales from his deadly harpoons. We now need to stop him for good.

There is a merciless ruthless storm threatening Fin whales in Icelandic waters, a storm of deadly explosive harpoons in the hands of a Cetacean serial killing fanatic. Our job is to calm these waters down and to make the North Atlantic a safe place for whales once again.

With your support, our ship the John Paul DeJoria will be ready in June for the voyage to Iceland and a showdown with the world’s most notorious whale killer : Kristján Loftsson.

Let’s make some waves to end the killing of whales.

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