“Paul Watson and his antiwhaling Sea Shepherd Conservation Society are keeping up the pressure after the collision earlier this week between their high-tech speedboat the Ady Gil and a larger vessel pulling security for a Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean. On Friday, Sea Shepherd filed a legal complaint against the Japanese whaling fleet in the Netherlands, where Mr. Watson’s flagship, the Steve Irwin, is registered. ‘We filed a complaint for criminal prosecution with our prosecutor, requesting the start of an investigation into what we consider to be a crime — piracy, actually — committing violence on the high seas,’ Liesbeth Zegveld, a legal adviser for the group, told Reuters.” (01/08/10)