Activists ambush Japanese whalers in Antarctic seas (AFP)

SYDNEY (AFP) – Anti-whaling activists said weekday they had exchanged liquid shot blast with Asian fishermen after ambushing them in polar waters.

The Sea Shepherd group, which has been pursuing the sportfishing fast since December, said its Steve Irwin board waited behindhand an berg before astonishing Japan's Nisshin Maru whaling boat.

"As the Steve Irwin passed by the Nisshin Maru, the works board overturned on their liquid cannons and were astonied when the Steve Irwin responded with a more coercive liquid shot that had a pair of the whalers swim for the denture doors as the glacial liquid struck their denture aerofoil deck," the assemble said in a statement.

Monday's conflict came meet digit life after Sea Shepherd accused the Asian of advisedly ramming its Bob Barker craft and leaving a cadence (three-foot) -long wound in its stern.

Last month, the group's futuristic Ady Gil boat was sliced in digit and sank after a impinging with digit of the Asian ships.

The activists verify to hit ransomed the lives of hundreds of whales by harassing the period hunt, which kills the animals using a loophole in an planetary moratorium which allows "lethal research".

"It does not concern where they go, easterly or westerly along the polar Coast," said Steve Irwin First Officer Locky MacLean.

"We impart to follow to their side same cement and we module not earmark a azygos whale to be unexploded onto the decks of that dishonor floating abattoir."

Australia and New Sjaelland hit titled for plainness from both sides with the activists deploying laser-like devices and smell bombs, and the Asian fast operative military-style curative weapons.

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