Paul Watson - conservation activist and founder and president of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society - describes his job as "unusual... I say what people don't want to hear; I do things that people don't want to see being done."

At a talk in December at York's Faculty of Environmental Studies, Watson, fresh from a nine-day jail sentence in Newfoundland, was full of zeal for his causes and determination to inspire the students who turned out to hear him. He spoke of his jail term, which came nearly seven years after he and fellow Sea Shepherd members chased Spanish and Cuban drag trawlers off the Grand Banks.

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