The captain of the radical anti-whaling Sea Shepherd Conservation Society says he was shot in a clash with Japanese whalers on Friday. Paul Watson says he found a bullet in his Kevlar vest; Japan's fisheries agency disputed the accusation, saying those onboard the whaling ship retaliated with non-lethal flash grenades after activists threw stink bombs of eye-stinging butyric acid onto their boat.
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source: Reuters, The Age, Agence France-Presse
see also, in Grist:Protesters converge on Japan’s whaling fleet
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