Activist’s group accused of ‘terrorist attack’ in collision with Antarctic krill trawler

By Joshua Goodman MIAMI (AP) — A ship operated by a group founded by anti-whaling activist Paul Watson collided with a Norwegian krill trawler off Antarctica in what the ship’s owner likened to a “terrorist attack” that endangered its crew and could have caused a disaster in the same environmentally sensitive waters the activists claim they want to protect. A two-minute video provided to The Associated Press by the Aker QRILL Co. of Norway shows the moment Tuesday when the M/V Bandero, operated by the Captain Paul Watson Foundation, slowly steams toward the stern of the Antarctic Sea, hitting the fishing vessel on its port side at a slight angle. The collision underscores the growing battle in the frigid Southern Ocean over the future of Antarctic krill, a shrimplike crustacean…

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