{"id":1192,"date":"2007-06-06T06:41:08","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T04:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.greenmedia.md\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2007-06-06T06:41:08","modified_gmt":"2007-06-06T04:41:08","slug":"defending-whales-nisshin-maru-up-for-sale-if-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/defending-whales-nisshin-maru-up-for-sale-if-only.html","title":{"rendered":"Defending Whales: Nisshin Maru up for sale? If only!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Posted by <a href=\"http:\/\/whales.greenpeace.org\/profile\/Davewebbie\">Dave<\/a> (in Anchorage, Alaska)<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nisshin Maru for sale?\" src=\"http:\/\/weblog.greenpeace.org\/whales\/_MG_6336_whaler_for_sale_43.jpg\" width=\"430\" height=\"294\" \/><br \/>\n&copy; Dave Walsh<\/p>\n<p>Alas no, the Japanese whaling fleet&#8217;s factory ship, the <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.greenpeace.org\/oceandefenders\/archive\/2007\/02\/fleet_family_snapshot.html\"><i>Nisshin Maru<\/i><\/a> is not up for sale. This vessel, the <i>Whale 2<\/i>, was spotted by Greenpeace Japan&#8217;s whale campaigner, Junichi, Dutch video-guru Maarten and I in Homer, Alaska, at the weekend. We couldn&#8217;t help but notice that it had &#8220;RESEARCH&#8221; plastered all over it, along with a for sale sign. And it&#8217;s registered in Valdez, of course &#8211; where one of the worst environmental disasters ever occurred, when the tanker <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill\"><i>Exxon Valdez<\/i><\/a> hit a reef, spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.greenpeace.org\/whales\/2007\/06\/nisshin_maru_up_for_sale_if_on.html\" title=\"Nisshin Maru up for sale? If only!\">Continue reading Nisshin Maru up for sale? If only!&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Dave (in Anchorage, Alaska) &copy; Dave Walsh Alas no, the Japanese whaling fleet&#8217;s factory ship, the Nisshin Maru is not up for sale. This vessel, the Whale 2, was spotted by Greenpeace Japan&#8217;s whale campaigner, Junichi, Dutch video-guru Maarten and I in Homer, Alaska, at the weekend. We couldn&#8217;t help but notice that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}