Overview
- Video shows the M/V Bandero, run by the Captain Paul Watson Foundation, striking an Aker QRILL Company trawler in Antarctic waters.
- Aker leaders called the collision a deliberate attack and warned a hull breach could have spilled diesel and harmed wildlife.
- The Captain Paul Watson Foundation said it made a controlled nudge to stop what it calls ecologically destructive krill fishing.
- The company alleged activists cut fishing lines and came close to a diesel tank, claims that have not been independently verified.
- Krill form the base of the region’s food web for whales, seals, and seabirds, so fights over concentrated harvesting and safety at sea may draw tighter oversight.