But he never tried to block leagal whaling. This is legal whaling of non-endangered species.
He saw the “research” sham for what it was and forced the Japanese to stop whaling or lose the fishing quotas in our waters. They blinked. Later when there were no more quotas the Japanese resumed their illegal whaling.
There was recently a video of a young girl being pummeled in front of several security guards, who did nothing. If I’m there I would have intervened. “But it’s not your job, leave it to the official security guards!”. No can do.