Whale Killers Convicted for Killing Gray Whale

One of the Makah tribes most prominent whale killers has been found guilty of unlawfully killing a California Gray whale near Cape Flattery in Washington State. Wayne Johnson is the captain of the Makah Whaling crew and in August of 2007, he and four other Makah whalers unlawfully harpooned and shot a whale close to shore. The whale took over 10 hours to die and then sank unrecovered in the Pacific. Read more...