Canada's fisheries minister defended the arrest of an anti-seal-hunt vessel Saturday, and dismissed the crew members as "money-sucking manipulators."
An armed RCMP team, working with fisheries personnel and the coast guard, boarded and seized the Farley Mowat in the Gulf of St. Lawrence on Saturday as it was monitoring the hunt.
The head of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Paul Watson, said the arrest of the Mowat was "an act of war," claiming the Dutch-registered vessel was outside Canadian jurisdiction.
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