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Greenpeace campaign ship in Stornoway stop 30/10/11
The Greenpeace vessel MV Arctic Sunrise sought shelter from bad weather in Stornoway harbour over the weekend giving her crew and team of research scientists a break ashore.
The 950 tonne vessel departed early on Sunday on an expedition in the North East Atlantic to document and observe deep sea fisheries.
Her European crew are monitoring French and Spanish fishing boats which trawl along the seabed west of the Hebrides.
Greenpeace has denounced the deep sea fishery as “particularly destructive” and the result of “bad fisheries management” allowed by the Common Fisheries Policy.
Earlier this year, another Greenpeace vessel, MV Esperanza, called into Stornoway enroute to the same location.
Both ships were previously deployed against the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean
The MV Arctic Sunrise was built as an icebreaker and ironically was used for seal hunting under previous operators. She had previously been confronted by activists when she was delivering equipment for the French government to build an airstrip through a penguin habitat in the Antarctic.
Since 1995, she has been engaged in environmental work and was first chartered by Greenpeace for the North Sea Brent Spar campaign, in the fight against dumping oil installations at sea. More recently she has opposed BP’s new offshore oil developments in Alaska.