An anti-whaling group says it split up Japan 's fleet and chased it out of the Japan zone . `` The whale poaching fleet is scattered and currently not hunting whales , '' Sea Shepherd said in a statement Monday . `` Within a day and a half , we have the entire whaling fleet in disarray , '' an activist says . Japan says the whaling ships are still in the Southern Ocean and the hunt continues . Environmental groups clash annual with Antarctic 's whaling vessels .
An anti-whaling group says it split up Japan 's fleet and chased it out of the Japan zone . `` Within a day and a half , we have the entire whaling fleet in disarray , '' an activist says . Japan says the whaling ships are still in the Southern Ocean and the hunt continues . Environmental groups clash annual with Antarctic 's whaling vessels .