Trawlermen fire potatoes at Greenpeace activists
Greenpeace said fishermen fired potatoes at the group's activists today when they used inflatable boats to disrupt a trawling ship near New Zealand in a protest timed to coincide with UN talks on managing the world's oceans.
The activists delayed the trawler Ocean Reward in the Tasman Sea for about an hour by attaching a life raft to its net, Greenpeace campaigner Carmen Gravatt said from aboard the protest vessel Rainbow Warrior.
The trawler's crew turned a high-pressure water hose on the activists and 'used a compressed air gun to shoot potatoes at us,' she said, adding that nobody 'was hit by any of the stuff they threw at us.'
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