Thursday, March 31, 2005  Attack of the Hak-a-Piks  Sea Shepherd
Crew Assaulted by Sealers then Arrested by Fisheries Officers
Farley Mowat Update   March 31st, 2005  2300 Hours  Atlantic
Standard Time  1900 Hours  Pacific Standard Time    46 Degrees 
40 Minutes  28 Seconds North  61 Degrees 45 Minutes   40 Seconds
West  15 Miles off Prince Edward Island  Tonight the Farley
Mowat is locked into the ice. We must go where the ice takes us
and it has moved us some fifty miles from the point close to the
Magdalen Islands where we were when the storm moved in. The ice
pressure continues to build.  Of the nearly one hundred sealing
ships that were in the ice on March 29th, only about 30 vessels
remain. Two have sunk, others have been abandoned and others
have been damaged, their hulls being squeezed by the increasing
pressure. Most have returned to port.  One Newfoundland sealer
was overheard to say on the radio, "These seals ain't worth this
trouble b'ye."  The radio was alive with desperate sealers
calling for