can be seen every week on the hugely popular will wars on animal planet welcome to show captain paul watson well thank you now captain watson japan's whaling season there catch for the year was cut by fifty percent over the previous season tell us about the sea shepherd its role in making that happen while i set the sea shepherd conservation society up not as a protest organization but as an interventionist group to go after poachers already illegal fishing or illegal whaling operations and that's what we've been doing since well one thousand nine hundred seventy seven really and we started going after the japanese fleet in two thousand and two then we had to come back we were able to come back here until two thousand and five but since two thousand and five we've been down there every season intervening and the object is to cut their quotas to negate their profits now let's talk about the contrast your approach with other let's scots call the environmentalists i remember hearing you talk about this and saying it's ok to take a moral position it's ok to take them to court but unless. attack