Watson fined
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1994:
ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland––Captain
Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation
Society was fined $5,000 on April 11 and his for-
mer ship the Cleveland Amory was fined $30,000,
for allegedly lacking proper certification under
Canadian maritime law during their July 28, 1993
confrontation with the Cuban dragnet fishing ves-
sel Rio Las Casasnear the tail of the Grand Banks.
The fines, stated in Canadian funds, would come
to about $4,000 and $24,000, respectively, in
U.S. currency.