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Consignment sheet detailing, in Japanese, the contents of a crewmembers' personal box offloaded from the whaling factory ship Nisshin Maru, containing 23.5 kilograms of stolen whale meat. The sheet lists the contents of the box as "cardboard."

A personal box, one of four, couriered from the Nisshin Maru factory whaling ship to the home address of a senior crew member, containing 23.5kgs of stolen whale meat. The consignment sheet claims the box contains "cardboard." Greenpeace obtained the box following a four month under cover investigation into allegations of large scale theft of whale meat from the Japanese-Government-sponsored whaling programme in the southern ocean.

Polar Bears on an ice shelf. Mother and cub.

Greenpeace Japan whale campaign coordinator Junichi Sato weighs 23.5 kilograms of whale meat stolen by crewmembers of the Nisshin Maru whaling ship. The contents of the box were listed as "cardboard."

An illegal tuna purse seiner (in the background), the Queen Evelyn 168, was at the site of a transfer of tuna between her sister vessel and a refrigerated mothership (foreground), the Kenken 888. It is likely that a transfer of fish at sea involving an illegal vessel was about to occur, but the arrival of Greenpeace prevented it from taking place as the vessels immediately separated and fled. This occurred in a pocket of international waters between Papua New Guinea and the Federated States of Micronesia. All vessels were flagged in the Philippines.

Greenpeace activists Danny Holland of Papua New Guinea, Ana Jitoko of Fiji and Lagi Toribau of Fiji hold up a banner reading ' Stolen Fish Stolen Future' in front of a Filipino mothership, Kenken 888. The vessel has transferred the catches of six purse seiners at sea over the past month. Yellowfin and bigeye tuna are suffering from overfishing and Greenpeace wants the pockets of international waters between Pacific nations as marine reserves.

Greenpeace activists from Fiji and Papua New Guinea stand on juvenile yellowfin and skipjack tuna in the hold of a vessel that was caught offloading fish from purse seiners in the Pacific Commons.

Greenpeace activists checks on juvenile yellowfin and skipjack tuna in the hold of Philippine mothership the Kenken 888, Western Central Pacific, Ocean.

Greenpeace activists paint "Pirate?" on the back of Taiwanese longlinger in Pacific international waters. May 3rd 2008