Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson says he has viewed plenty of blue whales, dived with them in Western Australia, off the Californian coast and in the Southern Ocean.
30-metre animal, harpooned and cut up for export to Japan.

A blue whale and her calf Source: Getty Images
Twelve years after Iceland thumbed its nose at ((ignored)) an international whaling ban and resumed commercial hunting, the country's industry is at the centre of a global storm.
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