A conservation group monitoring the annual seal hunt said armed Canadian Coast Guard officers boarded their vessel the Farley Mowat in the Gulf of St. Lawrence Saturday.
Paul Watson, who heads the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, said coast guard officers stormed the vessel at 11 a.m. local time. Watson received a call from Albertan Shannon Mann, 35, the onboard communications officer for the protest ship.
"Shannon said that the icebreaker the Des Groseilliers and the (offshore patrol ship) Sir Wifrid Grenfell dispatched four small boats carrying officers and they swarmed the vessel and came on board," said Watson. "They seized everything."
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