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The Yushin Maru catcher ship of the Japanese whaling fleet injures a whale with its first harpoon attempt, and takes a further three harpoon shots before finally killing the badly injured fleeing whale. Finally they drowned the mammal beneath the harpooon deck of the ship to kill it. Southern Ocean. 07.01.2006. After a 73 day expedition to defend whales in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary the Greenpeace fleet docked in Cape Town and held a press conference Thursday 02 February 2006. Greenpeace announced that in addition to their anti whaling sea campaign they will be focussing their corporate campaign on the companies behind Kyodo Senpaku who own the Whaling fleet. Nissui owning one third share of Kyodo Senpaku has shares in seafood giant JP Klausen which supplies Nestle, Unilever, Heinz and McDonalds. (KEYSTONE/EPA/JEREMY SUTTON-HIBBERT) ===, ===