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Captain Paul Watson Foundation
Founded2022
FounderPaul Watson
TypePublic charity (US); registered charity (UK)
FocusMarine conservation activism
Region served
Global
Websitewww.paulwatsonfoundation.org

The Captain Paul Watson Foundation (CPWF) is a non-profit, marine conservation activism organization led by ocean conservationist and Sea Shepherd founder Captain Paul Watson. Following a split within the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and Sea Shepherd Global in 2022, Watson established the CPWF in order to save the original movement Sea Shepherd started and to continue protecting marine and freshwater environments and biodiversity utilizing non-violent direct action tactics effectively.[1][2][3]

History

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Exit from Sea Shepherd

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The Captain Paul Watson Foundation was officially formed on July 13, 2022 by Paul Watson. On July 27, 2022, Watson formally announced on a social media statement that he was leaving the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS). This was due to what Watson considered an abandonment of Sea Shepherd's mission and values by the current board of directors at SSCS.[4][5][6]

Reports from independent media described Watson’s exit from Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) as the culmination of longstanding tensions within Sea Shepherd leadership over strategy and governance, with the organization increasingly pursuing partnerships with governmental bodies and moderating some of its direct-action tactics.[5][7]

Independent reporting noted that the foundation would continue to focus on issues such as commercial whaling and industrial fishing practices.[8]

Subsequently, on September 3, 2022, he was removed from the board of Sea Shepherd Global in a 4 to 2 vote. Watson himself was not present during (nor invited to partake in) the vote. Regarding the choice to name the CPWF after himself, Watson stated that "the reason I called it that is because it's pretty hard for anyone to infiltrate and take over an organization that included my name".[3][9][10]

Early Phase

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In its early phase, the foundation was covered by international media in relation to Watson’s ongoing activism. A December 2024 news article from The Inertia reported on Watson’s involvement in marine conservation actions and referenced his leadership of the Captain Paul Watson Foundation during legal events connected to anti-whaling protests, indicating that the organization had become a focal point for his activities post-SSCS.[11]

In December 2022 the CPWF announced it had acquired their first ship, the former Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency patrol vessel Vigilant. The Vigilant would be promptly renamed the MV John Paul DeJoria. The vessel being named after both CPWF ambassador and philanthropist John Paul DeJoria and a previous Sea Shepherd vessel scrapped in 2022, the former U.S. Coast Guard Island-class patrol vessel MV John Paul DeJoria.[12][13][14]

As of 2026, the Foundation has maintained a presence in public campaigns and advocacy surrounding marine protection, drawing attention from both sympathetic and critical observers in the international press. The organization’s activities continue to be discussed in the context of broader debates over conservation strategy and the role of direct action in environmental movements.[15]

Notable Campaigns

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Since its establishment in 2022, the Captain Paul Watson Foundation has been associated with several high-profile marine conservation campaigns that have drawn international media attention:

Opposition to Icelandic Whaling

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Operation Paiakan

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The first major International campaign the foundation launched was Operation Paiakan, launched in the Summer of 2023. The CPWF sent the vessel MV John Paul Dejoria to halt the resumption of commercial whaling operations in Iceland.[16]

Iceland’s largest and only remaining whaling company, Hvalur hf., announced that it would not hunt Fin whales during the summer whaling season of 2025, effectively canceling operations for the second consecutive year. The decision meant that no Fin whales were expected to be killed in Icelandic waters that year, a notable departure from previous decades when the company regularly hunted the species. This announcement came after the CPWF vowed to actively stop the hunting ships.

During Operation Paiakan, the mere presence of the CPWF vessel just outside the 12 nautical mile limit of Iceland’s territorial waters (alongside a report from the Iceland's government criticizing the company’s lack of adherence to Iceland’s Animal Welfare Standards) forced Hvalur hf to keep its vessels in port on June 30, 2023. Saving the lives of potentially hundreds of whales in the process. The MV John Paul Dejoria only left Icelandic waters after the arrival of the Icelandic Coast Guard. The report itself was likely published as quick as it was due to the pressure of the mere presence of the MV John Paul Dejoria in Icelandic waters.[17][18][19]

Conservation advocates noted that the repeated pauses in whaling seasons marked a potentially historic shift in Iceland’s controversial commercial whaling practices, though they also cautioned that official governmental policy and future permits still allow whaling to continue.[19]

Environmental and advocacy groups, including organizations aligned with anti-whaling efforts, welcomed the cancellations as a positive development for fin whale conservation, while acknowledging that long-term protections would require legal changes beyond industry decisions.[19]

Operation 86

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On May 4, 2026, Hvalur hf announced it would resume whaling operations for Fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) the summer whaling season of 2026. Subsequently, the CPWF announced the launch of its latest Icelandic anti-whaling campaign Operation 86, on May 21, 2026. The name and timing of the operation holding substantial significance for the CPWF. The 86 referring to the 1986 Hvalur sinkings, where on November 8-9th, 1986, Watson sent two saboteurs into Reykjavík harbor and sank without causing any injuries or deaths the Icelandic whaling vessels MV Hvalur 6 and MV Hvalur 7. This was alongside successfully sabotaging the whale processing facility at Hvalfjörður, intended to enforce the 1986 IWC global moratorium on Commercial whaling. The operation successfully sank half of Iceland's whaling fleet and forced by 1989 a complete halt in Icelandic whaling operations for 17 years. The launch of Operation 86 was also near the 40th anniversary of the original Hvalur sinkings of 1986.[20][21][22]

Regarding Operation 86's goals, Watson emphasized in an interview with the newspaper Vísir.is on May 22, 2026 that "What we started in 1986, we plan to finish in 2026".[23]

In late June 2026, the CPWF Vessel MV Bandero departed Ireland for Iceland. Amongst the crew included campaign leader Rod Coronado (one of the two original saboteurs of the Hvalur fleet in 1986). The vessel and its crew reached Iceland's exclusive economic zone on June 29th, but returned to Ireland briefly due to a medical emergency with one of its crew members. Following a crew replacement, the MV Bandero departed Ireland again and once more reached Icelandic territorial waters on July 22nd. Throughout the entire campaign, tracking of the Hvalur whaling fleet became extremely difficult due to constant monitoring by the Icelandic Coast Guard of the Bandero's movements. The coast guard would subsequently transmit the Bandero's location to the Hvalur vessels, allowing them to avoid detection by the Bandero's crew.[24][25]

But on July 30th, 2026, the Bandero managed to find the Hvalur whale catcher vessel MV Hvalur 9. Two Rigid Inflatable boats were launched from the Bandero, which successfully chased the Hvalur 9 away from the whaling grounds. Saving the lives of likely multiple Fin whales in the process. As the Bandero continued its pursuit of the Hvalur vessel, the Hvalur 9's captain called Iceland's Coast Guard for immediate assistance. The Coast Guard responded by promptly sending a helicopter and the patrol vessel ICGV Freyja to the scene.[26]

At 2400 hours or 12:00AM GMT/UTC+0, four members of the National Commissioner of Police's special forces the Sérsveit ríkislögreglustjóra (The Viking Squad) boarded the unarmed Bandero via a Rigid inflatable boat and seized control of the ship at gunpoint. The Viking Squad immediately proceeded to arrest and detain the Bandero's entire 21 person crew. The ship was then forcibly brought into Reykjavík harbor.[26][27]

Speaking to The Reykjavík Grapevine on July 31, 2026, Communications manager for the Icelandic Coast Guard Ásgeir Erlendsson described the seizure of the MV Bandero as the Coast Guard's “biggest operation in decades, and it went exactly according to plan”.[28]

Several members of the Bandero's crew are currently facing deportation from Iceland and temporary bans from traveling within the European Union's Schengen Entry Area.[29]

Opposition to the Dolphin Hunts in Taiji

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Independent reporting on ongoing global anti-whaling activity cited Captain Paul Watson Foundation figures among activist voices condemning Japanese dolphin drive hunts in Taiji and other hunts. Coverage in outlets such as The Japan Times and Mongabay included perspectives from Watson and allied activists highlighting concerns over dolphin and small cetacean hunts.

Opposition to Japanese Whaling

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Watson's Arrest in Greenland

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On July 11, 2024, the CPWF announced the launch of Operation Kangei Maru. A direct action campaign aimed at interfering, obstructing, and ultimately stopping Japan's commercial whaling operations in the North Pacific for the 2024 Japanese whaling season (the operation being named after Japan's newest whale factory ship the MV Kangei Maru). Captain Paul Watson planned to lead the campaign onboard the CPWF vessel the MV John Paul Dejoria. However, the campaign was cut short. On July 21, 2024, Watson was arrested in Nuuk, Greenland by Danish authorities on an international warrant issued by Interpol at the request of Japan.[30]

The warrant stemmed from allegations related to incidents in February 2010 (When Watson was still in charge of SSCS) connected to the Japanese whaling/security vessel MV Shōnan Maru 2 during Sea Shepherd's anti-whaling operations in the Southern Ocean. Watson was taken into custody in Nuuk while the MV John Paul DeJoria was refueling before continuing on to the North Pacific.[31]

Watson’s detention was controversial. Sparking an immediate International outcry. Supporters and colleagues argued the charges were politically motivated and related to his long-standing opposition to commercial whaling, while Japanese authorities maintained the warrant was based on alleged injury and damage caused during direct-action interventions. French President Emmanuel Macron also weighed in on the matter, with his office releasing an official statement condemning Denmark's actions and demanding Watson's immediate release. A court in Greenland initially ordered that Watson remain in custody pending extradition proceedings, with hearings extending into late 2024.[32][33][34]

In December 2024, Danish authorities announced they would not extradite Watson to Japan, noting legal and procedural concerns including the age of the allegations and the absence of an extradition treaty between Denmark and Japan. Watson was subsequently released from detention and returned to France, continuing his conservation advocacy.[35][36][37]

Interpol removed Watson from its "red notice" most-wanted list on July 22, 2025. This occurred after immense public pressure forced Interpol's Commission for the Control of Interpol’s Files (CCF) to conduct an internal review on Watson's case. Ultimately, the Commission determined the charges against Watson were "disproportionate" compared to his actual actions in the 2010 Southern Ocean incidents and found evidence of "political elements" and previous interference in the case by the Government of Japan, resulting in the warrant's immediate termination.[38][39][40]

Rice's Whales Campaign

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On August 11, 2025, the CPWF launched a campaign to save the critically endangered Rice’s whales (Balaenoptera ricei) of the Gulf of Mexico named Operation Gulf Guardians. Still active, Operation Gulf Guardians is a multi-phase campaign involving educating the public on the Rice's whales and their ecological importance, pressuring local, state, and the U.S. federal government and industries in increasing efforts to protect the Rice's whales and their habitat, and providing steps to the public on how to direct protect surviving individuals and their habitat. The intention of which is to save the Rice's whales from extinction and restore their population to pre-exploitation levels.[41][42][43]

Southern Resident Orcas Campaign

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Since the late 1990s, the annual death toll and infant mortality rate amongst the Southern Resident Orcas (also known as the Southern Resident Killer Whales or SRKW), a unique population and ecotype of Orca (Orcinus orca) native only to the coastal and inland waters of the American Pacific Northwest including the Salish Sea, has increased sharply and have largely not abated. Previous human induced SRKW populations declines starting as early as 1938 were largely due to deliberate killings of SRKWs by people in efforts to capture individuals for the Mammal Mammal aquarium trade (between 1967-1971) and the completion of some of the earliest modern, large scale dams that blocked access to spawning habitat for their primary prey Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), including the Bonneville Dam (completed in 1938 but further construction increased its size between 1974-1981) and the lower Snake river dams between 1961-1975.[44]

By 1974, the population had declined from at least 200 individuals before the 1960s to a mere 71 individuals. Afterwards, a brief period of population recovery did occur for the SR orcas between the late 1970s-1980s due to the halt in captures of SR orcas for the aquarium trade and increased federal protection following the passage and implementation of the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972.[45]

The modern population decline starting in 1996 is largely due to the increasingly severe effects of human-induced climate change on their habitat and prey availability, overfishing of the salmon they prey upon, increased pollution within their habitat, and the increasingly amplified effects of dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers on wild salmon populations. Thus depriving the Southern resident orcas of sufficient food to survive.[46][47]

SR Orcas have been the focus of increased attention from both scientists and the public due to the discovery of the population's social complexity and high levels of intelligence amongst SR Orca individuals. This includes Tahlequah (J35), an adult female SR Orca born c.1998 who has given birth to four offspring, of which only two survived. In response to the loss of two of her offspring in 2018 and 2024 respectively, Tahlequah would carry the body of the recently deceased calfs on her rostrum for multiple days and distances of at least 1,000 miles (1,600 km). Demonstrating SR Orcas can experience grief and will mourn the passing of loved ones.[48][49][50]

On or slightly before December 20, 2024, Tahlequah gave birth to her fourth calf, a female orca named J61 by monitoring marine biologists. However, on December 31, 2024, J61 died. The likely cause of death according to NOAA researcher Dr. Brad Hanson was malnourishment due to a lack of salmon to feed on in the area. Tahlequah subsequently entered into another state of grief and mourning, carrying the lifeless body of J61 on her rostrum between December 31, 2024 to February 8, 2025.[51]

In response to the death of J61, the CPWF began efforts to raise public awareness on the plight of the SR Orca population, helping to organize a major, peaceful rally at the front of the Washington State Capitol, WA on January 15, 2026. Demanding the State legislature increase its efforts to protect the SR Orcas and their food source the salmon including by safely breaching the specific dams on the Snake River blocking the salmon from their spawning areas.[52]

On June 17, 2026, the CPWF formally launched Operation Tahlequah, its ongoing campaign to save the Southern Resident Orca population and their habitat.[53]

Sea Turtle Campaigns

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Operation Jairo Mora

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In September of 2025, the CPWF officially launched Operation Jairo Mora, its ongoing Sea turtle protection, anti-poaching, and education campaign in Costa Rica. Named after the late Conservationist Jairo Mora Sandoval, the campaign focuses on halting the poaching of nesting sea turtles and their eggs alongside helping to restore the pre-exploitation population levels of Costa Rica's five Sea turtle species (all currently listed by the IUCN as Endangered to Critically endangered with high risk of Extinction in the Wild). The species being Green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas), Leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea), Olive Ridley sea turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea), Hawksbill sea turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata), and Loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta). This is achieved through multiple methods including the direct monitoring and guarding of recently hatched sea turtles by CPWF field volunteers. This is to directly ensure their protection from poachers and to ensure the turtles successfully reach the water. Other methods being deployed as part of the campaign include establishing safe, protected hatcheries for Costa Rica's Sea turtle species, cleaning up ghost gear and other plastic pollution (another major threat to Sea turtle survival globally), and educating the wider public on the ecological importance of protecting native Sea turtle populations.[54]

The campaign is not to be confused with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's earlier Operation Jairo Mora and Jairo Mora II. The two Sea Shepherd operations only lasted from September 2015 to September 2016.[55][56][57]

By July 2026, CPWF’s Operation Jairo Mora had resulted in the rescue of 54 Sea turtle nests, more than 5,000 Sea turtle hatchlings successfully released, the removal and safe disposal of 2.4 tons of organic waste and 729 kilograms of plastic waste on nesting beaches, and 2,500 children successfully educated within the Costa Rica education system on the importance of Sea turtle conservation.[54][58][59]

Operation Honu Hui

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In the Mediterranean, the ongoing Operation Honu Hui was launched by the CPWF in Italy in May to protect the Loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) populations nesting on the Italian coast.[54][60]

Fleet

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As of 2026, the CPWF maintains a fleet of several vessels.

The MV John Paul DeJoria is a large, 71.4 meter long, former patrol ship originally named Vigilant. Built in 1982 by Ferguson Brothers (Port Glasgow) Ltd., Port Glasgow, the vessel served the Department of Agriculture & Fisheries for Scotland from 1982 to 2008. The CPWF acquired the vessel in 2023 and renamed it the John Paul DeJoria, after CPWF ambassador and philanthropist John Paul DeJoria and a previous Sea Shepherd vessel of the same name.[61][62][63]

The MV Bandero is a large, 64 meter long former patrol ship acquired by the Foundation in 2024. The vessel, originally named Arasaki, was built between 2000-2002 at the Miho Shipyard in Shizuoka, Japan. The vessel served as a patrol vessel for Japan’s Fisheries Agency until 2023. A year later the Foundation acquired it and renamed it the Bandero.[63]

The RV Martin Sheen is a large, 24 meter long ketch sailing vessel acquired by the Foundation from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in 2025. Originally built in 1977 as the Yacht Caribana by Palmer Johnson Yachts in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, U.S.A., it was acquired by the Conservation group Ocean Alliance in 1992.[63][64][65] Renamed Odyssey, it served as a dedicated research vessel for the Alliance. Studying the ecological impacts of plastic pollution on the world’s oceans.[66] The vessel was donated to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in 2015 who renamed it the RV Martin Sheen (after then Sea Shepherd Ambassador Martin Sheen) and operated it for several years. The vessel was subsequently donated to the Captain Paul Watson Foundation in October of 2025.[67]

The MV Spectre is an Offshore 105 dive boat operated by the Foundation's chapter in the United Kingdom (UK) in order to retrieve and safely destroy discarded fishing gear. The Foundation acquired the vessel in March 2021 and formally added it to the fleet in October that same year. It is currently active in UK waters, serving as both a diving support vessel for CPWF personnel retrieving and safely discarding ghost gear and a conservation patrol boat.[68][69]

The LCVP Selkie is a former British military landing craft vessel known as a Landing craft vehicle personnel (LCVP). The LCVP Selkie was originally an Mk.4 version LCVP, built in 1985 for the Royal Navy before being retired alongside the rest of the Mk.4s in 2012. In March 2022, the UK Chapter of Sea Shepherd acquired the LCVP Selkie. Upon Sea Shepherd UK’s decision to join the CPWF, the LCVP Selkie was immediately integrated into the new CPWF UK fleet. It is currently active in UK waters retrieving and safely discarding ocean pollution including discarded fishing gear.[68]

As of 2026, the Foundation operates a number of Rigid Inflatable Boats (RIBS) and Rigid-Hulled Inflatable Boats (RHIB) as part of its global fleet. As of 2026, these are the RIB Siren (carried on board the MV John Paul DeJoria), RIB Lion-Heart (operated by CPWF UK), and RIB Ghost (operated by CPWF UK).[68][70]

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