The Sea Shepard is only allowed to be doing what they are doing because they are doing it on the High-Seas. The Japanese are very reserved people… trying doing this to a Chinese fish trawler and the Sea Shepard’s crew a few would have been killed already and the ship might be sunk already. The Sea Shepard is like The Animal Liberation Front. Look them up if you don’t know who they are.
The Japanese is not the only nation that hunts whales. Native Americans tribes living in Alaska…AKA America – good ole USA and Canada are allowed to hunt whales. Iceland and Norway are countries that also hunt whales.
Hunting whales are not illegal under international law. Just because you do not agree with what people are doing; does not give you the right to terrorize them for what they are doing.
What the Sea Shepard and crew should be doing is educate the Japanese and others who eat whale meat. Buy billboards, run ads, buy TV time. Just educate the people. You will go a lot further in stopping whaling by educating the masses.