Anti-whaling activists and Japanese whalers have exchanged hostile water cannon fire in the Antarctic Ocean as two activists’ boats tailed the Japanese whaling fleet in an attempt to foil the killing of any whales.

Wales Online report that the Sea Shepherd conservation group said its ships – the Steve Irwin and the Bob Barker – had surprised the Japanese factory ship Nisshin Maru early yesterday.

Each year, the US-based activist group sends vessels to confront the Japanese whaling fleet and two collisions have already occurred this year alone.

Japan’s hunt for whales is allowed under world whaling regulations as a scientific expedition even though commercial whaling is banned.

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