GREENPEACE CONFRONTS INDUSTRIAL FISHING FLEET OFF SCOTTISH COAST

Greepeace activists braved the elements and hostile industrial fishing crews to stop destructive large scale fisheries on the 'Wee Bankie', a shallow, sensitive area of the North Sea east of Dunbar, Scotland.

There is a diary with photographs from the crew aboard the Greenpeace ship, Sirius, covering the intitial confrontation of the industrial fishing boats arriving to fish on the Wee Bankie.

Press releases from the Greenpeace press office follow the campaign as it unfolds around the action. Also, debate in the the press sparked by the Greenpeace campaign from both sides of the fence - "Green Bogeyman to Gut Industry?" and a response to it : "And About Time Too..." reproduced here by kind permission of The Shetland Times

Exchanges over the ship's radio between the Danish industrial fishing fleet, fisheries protection vessel HMS Shetland and Greenpeace vessel M.V. Sirius give a flavour of the opposition and animosity that the crew of the Sirius encountered as they deployed peaceful methods to stop the industrial fishers.

For an 'eye witness' account of the actions on the Wee Bankie there are six quicktime movies showing the industrial fishing vessels sailing directly into groups of activists in the water, their crews using grappling hooks to ensnare the Greenpeace inflatables and firing distress flares at close range.

Goodbye to Dunbar - a sentimental farewell as the Sirius sails to Copenhagen to continue the campaign.

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